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Rosa Parks Quotes
«she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is any such thing as complete happiness. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything you need and everything you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.»
«I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«I only knew that [as] I was being arrested it was the last time I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind,»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«a living icon for freedom in America.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«Mother Parks, take your rest.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«was the catalyst of one of the most important freedom movements not only in American history but in world history .. indeed she became the symbol and personification of our nonviolent struggle for liberation and human dignity.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)
«I heard that she sat down on the bus. That is all that I know. They don't tell you too much about this stuff at school. They talk mostly about military tactics and how wars were won.»
Author: Rosa Parks
(Activist)