black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Rosa Parks

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
ROSA PARKS

Action Black Lives Matter Cause Normal Trouble
My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
ROSA PARKS

Business Concern Dedication Home Work
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
ROSA PARKS

Beginning Healing Oppression Process Time
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.
ROSA PARKS

Goals Harmony Live Love Mind Peace People Seek Thinking Togetherness
One person can change the world.
ROSA PARKS

Business Change Entrepreneur Inspirational One Liner Person World
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
ROSA PARKS

Children Freedom Stand
I want to be treated like a human being.
ROSA PARKS

Human One Liner Self Respect Treatment
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
ROSA PARKS

Concern Equality Freedom Justice People Person Prosperity
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.
ROSA PARKS

Country Forget History President Remember Woman
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
ROSA PARKS

Believe Push Time
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS

Citizen Ignorance Neglect Tired Treatment
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
ROSA PARKS

Continue Deed Life Live Memories Work
Many 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

Black Lives Matter Freedom
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
ROSA PARKS

Children Hope Meet Overcome Preparation Racism
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.
ROSA PARKS

Dedication Hustle Inspirational Matter Problem Success

I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rosa Parks Quotes