All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
ROSA PARKSDifferences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
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I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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