You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
ROSA PARKSThe only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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One person can change the world.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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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We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
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