Rosa Parks Quotes

I will always work for human rights for all people.

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

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.

An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.

There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

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.

Why do you all push us around?

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names?

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble, she does just fine.

don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her spacecrown her with skyfor she is one of the manyand she is each of us

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an