I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

 

 

 

 

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Rosa Parks

 

 

Why do you all push us around?

Rosa Parks

 

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.

Rosa Parks

 

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Rosa Parks

 

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Rosa Parks

 

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

 

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Rosa Parks

 

 

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

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

 

 

I was in the Civil Rights Movement as a Child

Truth be told, Rosa Parks had already been involved in the African-American struggle for equality for over a decade. Even as a child, she picked up a brick to defend herself when a racist boy tried to bully her. And as a teenager, she fought back against a white man who was sexually assaulting her, explaining, “If he wanted to kill me and rape a dead body, he was welcome, but he’d have to kill me first.”