Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
ROSA PARKSWhat 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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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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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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There is no future without education.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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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.
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I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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.
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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
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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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There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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One person can change the world.
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