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
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.
if she could not survive as humble and as sweet as she was in a segregated society ? nobody could survive.
You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person,
People are exploiting it, ... We are very concerned about that.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
I will always work for human rights for all people.
I want to be treated like a human being.
If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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.
It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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,