Bus Quote by Ramsey Clark

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave…

— Kinky Friedman

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 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

Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she…

— Joseph Lowery

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

— John Lewis

What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave…

— Michel Martin

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

— Mary Frances Berry

I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local church down…

— Jesse White

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

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

— Claudette Colvin

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said…

— John Lewis

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