Rosa Parks Quotes & Rosa Parks Sayings

All I was doing was trying to get home from work. failing to obey the order of bus driver. Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. 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. I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being, It was just a matter of survival...of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl and hearing the Ku Klux Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down. It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working. Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her. so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American. The Rosa Parks Story. The only tired I was, was tired of giving in, the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long. was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black. We've got an urban area with very few middle-class citizens in it, ... I don't think anything could bring me back. Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that 'no, I wasn't,' and he told me if I did not stand up he was going to have me arrested. And, I told him to go on and have me arrested, You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person,