Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
ROSA PARKSWithout vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
ROSA PARKSWhy do you all push us around?
ROSA PARKSI don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
ROSA PARKSIt is better to protest than to accept injustice.
ROSA PARKSWe will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
ROSA PARKSWhatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
ROSA PARKSI do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKSI did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
ROSA PARKSI will always work for human rights for all people.
ROSA PARKSPeople need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
ROSA PARKSThe time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
ROSA PARKSWhen 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.
ROSA PARKSOur freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
ROSA PARKSI knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKSMy only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
ROSA PARKSMany whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn’t just free blacks but them, too.
ROSA PARKS