Election Quote by Jay-Z

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

— Aisha Hinds

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin…

— Ramsey Clark

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil…

— David Cameron

“If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl.-Martin Luther King”

— Chrissie Wellington

Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if…

— Cornel West

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

— Mary Frances Berry

Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It was a…

— Donna Brazile

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

— Cornel West

You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of…

— Michel Martin

Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed…

— Richard Pryor

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them.…

— Marian Wright Edelman

We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of the Civil…

— Andrew Aydin