Rosa Parks Quotes
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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I believe there is only one race - the human race.
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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.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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Why do you all push us around?
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I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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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
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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.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race. It would be a good thing if all people were treated equally and justly and not be discriminated against because of race or religion or anything that makes them different from others.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
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Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. 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.
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Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.
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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.
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
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