Rosa Parks Quotes
200 Rosa Parks Quotes
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks
I had no idea when I refused to give up my seat on that Montgomery bus that my small action would help put an end to the segregation laws in the South. I only knew that I was tired of being pushed around.
Rosa Parks
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks
I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Well, I’m going to have you arrested.’ Then I said, ‘You may do that.’ These were the only words we said to each other.
Rosa Parks
In fact if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus. But I chose to remain.
Rosa Parks
I knew I was sitting in the right seat.
Rosa Parks
It was time for someone to stand up – or in my case, sit down. I refused to move.
Rosa Parks
I did not want to be continually humiliated over something I had no control over. The color of my skin.
Rosa Parks
Some people have me believe, when they talk with me, that I have influenced their lives in many ways.
Rosa Parks
The more we gave in and complied, the worse they treated us.
Rosa Parks
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday reflects values and ideas that benefit all of us – not only black people.
Rosa Parks
Because my mother and her sister could get both our tonsils removed for the price of one, they went ahead and had us both operated on.
Rosa Parks
It demonstrated how little regard segregationists had for the lives of black people and the lengths they would go to, to keep us in fear.
Rosa Parks
It took a lot of courage to be a plaintiff. You could be risking your life.
Rosa Parks
I am 83 years old, and I have come to realize that there is always more in life to learn. I just started taking swimming lessons last year. I ask a lot of questions during my swimming lessons. You can drown yourself with problems if you do not ask questions.
Rosa Parks
Believing in yourself takes courage. Facing the future takes hope. Carry both in your heart.
Rosa Parks
Life should not be taken for granted.
Rosa Parks
If we place our hope in becoming the best we can be, then we as a human race will always be advancing.
Rosa Parks
I believe all of us – young people and adults – should have people we look up to as examples.
Rosa Parks
You didn’t retaliate if they did something to you…
Rosa Parks
I had an aversion to white men, with the exception of my grandfather, and Raymond Parks was very light skinned.
Rosa Parks
The base was integrated because President Roosevelt had issued an order forbidding
segregation in the public places, trolleys, or buses at military bases.
Rosa Parks
I thought it was awful that they were condemned to die for a crime they did not commit.
Rosa Parks
In order to get registered, blacks had to have white people to vouch for them.
Rosa Parks
He was a proud, dignified man who carried himself straight as an arrow.
Rosa Parks
They carried guns and had what they called police power to rearrange the seating and enforce all the other rules of segregation on the buses.
Rosa Parks
They formed the group to protest against racial discrimination, lynching, brutality, and unequal education.
Rosa Parks
I was the only woman there, and they said they needed a secretary, and I was too timid to say no.
Rosa Parks
A Henry County grand jury refused to indict the six white men, although the driver of the kidnap car confessed and named his accomplices.
Rosa Parks
They’ve messed with the wrong one now.
Rosa Parks
The Black Muslims preached hatred of white people, and I never went along
with hatred of anybody.
Rosa Parks
[On Malcolm X] I had a lot of admiration for him, considering his background and where he came from and his having had to struggle so hard just to reach the point of being respected as a leader of the Black Muslims.
Rosa Parks
He [Malcolm X] left the Black Muslims. When he was shot in February 1965, he was trying to build a new organization that did not preach hatred. He had changed his manner of speaking and the way he expressed himself.
Rosa Parks
I have never gotten used to being a ‘public’ person.
Rosa Parks
[On the awards she has received] I appreciate and cherish every single one of them.
Rosa Parks
[On the public knowing about her health] I don’t especially care for my health to be too much of a public thing.
Rosa Parks
As time has gone by, people gave made my place in history of the civil-rights movement bigger and bigger.
Rosa Parks
When you get older, it is just natural to decline somewhat. Nowadays when I go into the hospital, the papers report it.
Rosa Parks
[On more progress on multiculturalism needing to be made] A whole lot of white people’s hearts have not been changed.
Rosa Parks
I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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