“There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. She was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.”— Kamala Harris, rev.com
“Busing did not work. You had overwhelming response from the African-American community in my state. My state is the eighth largest black population in the country as a percent of population. They weren’t—they did not support it. They did not support it.”— Joe Biden, transcripts.cnn.com
“‘I believe that I have a right to sit here,’ I said quietly. ‘If I sit in the back of the bus I am depriving that child—' I pointed to a little white child of five or six—‘of the knowledge that there is injustice here, which I believe it is his right to know. It is my sincere conviction that the pow…”— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.com
“For example, when we went into the buses of the South, we knew that there would be some violent reactions brought to the surface. Now when we went into that situation, we also had to accept violence unto ourselves’ but unless we were naive, we also knew that the lynch mob at Chapel Hill, which was f…”— Bayard Rustin, blogcitylights.com
“For example, I have knowingly sat at the table… and in the front of a bus in the South with white people, aware of the fact that when I did so, I was bringing to the surface a fear in them which was in a sense more profound than if I had struck them, and this is in part due to the fact that if I had…”— Bayard Rustin, blogcitylights.com