The Long Walk Home

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Narrator:
50,000 boycotted the buses in Montgomery. I knew one. Her name was Odessa Cotter.

Odessa Cotter:
Miss Thompson, I don't want your children to grow up scared of mine.

Miriam Thompson:
It's just that a lot of the whites are scared. I'm a little scared.

Odessa Cotter:
We're all scared. What's scarin' you Miss Thompson, who you are, or what Mr. Thompson wants you to be?

Tunker Thompson:
If she'd rather walk, let the soles of her feet bleed 'til she begs to ride that bus.

You is smart, you is kind and you is important.