Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parkswas an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in California and Missouri, and Ohio and Oregon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth4 February 1913
CityTuskegee, AL
CountryUnited States of America
If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
When one’s mind is made up... fear diminishes.
I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons...
I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
was the catalyst of one of the most important freedom movements not only in American history but in world history .. indeed she became the symbol and personification of our nonviolent struggle for liberation and human dignity.
We've got an urban area with very few middle-class citizens in it, ... I don't think anything could bring me back.
When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that 'no, I wasn't,' and he told me if I did not stand up he was going to have me arrested. And, I told him to go on and have me arrested,