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Rosa Parks Quotes

1913–2005 United States

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement".

United States
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Methodists

Random Rosa Parks quote

9 quotes

It is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love, than it would be to have hatred and prejudice.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me.

From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Quiet Strength (2000)

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

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.

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 next step.

Quiet Strength (2000)

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down later that day the national hero died.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rosa Parks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.