'Despite this success, so profoundly had the spirit of protest become a part of the people's lives that sometimes they even preferred to walk when a ride was available. The act of walking, for many, had become of symbolic importance. Once a pool driver stopped beside an elderly woman who was trudging along with obvious difficulty.
"Jump in, grandmother," he said. "You don't need to walk."
She waved him on. "I'm not walking for myself," she explained. "I'm walking for my children and my grandchildren." And she continued toward home on foot.'



'Stride Toward Freedom' Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Montgomery buss boycott