Rosa Parks
Activist
1913-02-04
Books by Rosa Parks
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I Am Rosa Parks
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Quotes by Rosa Parks
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
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You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
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All I was trying to do was get home from work.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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