"My resisting being mistreated on the bus did……" — Rosa Parks
"My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery."
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63 Quotes by Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks has 63 quotes on this site.
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All I was trying to do was get home from work.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our…
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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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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to…
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I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person…
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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…
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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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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate…
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a…
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More Arrest Quotes
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property,…
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject…
— William O. Douglas
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Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
— Lester R. Brown
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so…
— William Faulkner
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If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds…
— Eduard Suess
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I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything…
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