Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
Rosa Parks
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Rosa Parks
Age: 92 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 4
Died: 2005
Died: October 24
Activist
Autobiographer
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Public Figure
Tuskegee
Alabama
Rosa Lee Louise McCauley Parks
Rosa Louise McCauleyParks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
Known
Freedom
Persons
Equality
Person
Prosperity
Would
Inspiring
Like
Concerned
People
Leadership
Justice
More quotes by Rosa Parks
It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
Rosa Parks
My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
Rosa Parks
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
Rosa Parks
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.
Rosa Parks
As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
Rosa Parks
As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
Rosa Parks
I believe there is only one race - the human race.
Rosa Parks
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.
Rosa Parks
Why do you all push us around?
Rosa Parks
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.
Rosa Parks
I will always work for human rights for all people.
Rosa Parks
When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.
Rosa Parks
One person can change the world.
Rosa Parks
I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
Rosa Parks
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
Rosa Parks
Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
Rosa Parks
Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.
Rosa Parks
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks
An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
Rosa Parks
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.
Rosa Parks
