The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKSIf I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
-
-
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
ROSA PARKS -
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKS -
I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
ROSA PARKS -
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 -
You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
ROSA PARKS -
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKS -
If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
ROSA PARKS -
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
ROSA PARKS -
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.
ROSA PARKS -
Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
ROSA PARKS -
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS -
Our 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 PARKS -
I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
ROSA PARKS -
As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
ROSA PARKS -
I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
ROSA PARKS