Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Rosa Parks Quotes Click here for Rosa Parks books She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott "I did not get on the bus to get arrested I got on the bus to go home." "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people." "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." "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 there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet." "I had no idea when I refused to give up my seat on that Montgomery bus that my small action would help put an end to the segregation laws in the south. I only knew that I was tired of being pushed around. I was a regular person, just as good as anybody else." |
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