Rosa Parks

Quotes

• “I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think...”
• “Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my gran...”
• “People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, o...”
• “What would we in this country know about civil disobedience had Rosa Parks not refused to give up a seat she had a right...”
• “We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember goin...”
• “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....”
• “Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs ov...”
• “The driver of the bus saw me still sitting there, and he asked was I going to stand up. I said, "No." He said, "Well, I'...”
• “Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary", National Public Radio (1992), linked at "Civil R...”
• “(on being threatened with arrest for failing to move from her seat) "You're Under Arrest": Rosa Parks' Disobedience Agai...”
• “Martin Luther King Jr.; A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by James M. ...”
• “I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away...”
• “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 nex...”
• “Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," Time (1999-06...”
• “Quoted in "Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks," Women's National Hall of Fame (undated); said upon her 77th birthday (1990-02...”
• “I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all peop...”
• “God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me.”
• “Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz "The Next Step: Coalition Building in the Nineties'" in The Issue is Power (1992)”
• “Martin Luther King Jr.; Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955).”
• “E Ethelbert Miller poem fragment from How we sleep on the nights we don't make love (2004)”
• “Bree Newsome "The Civil-Rights Movement's Generation Gap" article in The Atlantic (2018)”
• “Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)”
• “Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)”
• “Rosa Park speech to social activists assembled in Washington, D.C. (1995))”
• “I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”
• “Bernice King, Remarks at the funeral of Rosa Parks (2 November 2005)”
• “Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)”
• “You're Under Arrest": Rosa Parks' Disobedience Against Racism,”
• “Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (2015)”
• “Rosa Parks dreams about/a bus in Jerusalem.”
• “You may do that.”
• “Quoted in (2002)”