Rosa Parks

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,…

— Rosa Parks

“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired…

— Rosa Parks

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of…

— Rosa Parks

I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean…

— Rosa Parks

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to…

— Rosa Parks

One person can change the world.

— Rosa Parks

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my…

— Rosa Parks

There is no future without education.

— Rosa Parks

If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we…

— Rosa Parks

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

— Rosa Parks

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it…

— Rosa Parks

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

— Rosa Parks

I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype.…

— Rosa Parks

I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.

— Rosa Parks

“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American…

— Rosa Parks

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and…

— Rosa Parks

Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my…

— Rosa Parks

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

— Rosa Parks

I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,…

— Rosa Parks

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make…

— Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for.…

— Rosa Parks

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their…

— Rosa Parks

Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.

— Rosa Parks

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

— 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…

— Rosa Parks