50 Rosa Parks Quotes – Her Wisest Words!
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1 – I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free. Rosa Parks
2 – I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. Rosa Parks
3 – 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. Rosa Parks
4 – I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. Rosa Parks
5 – I believe there is only one race – The Human Race. Rosa Parks
6 – Without vision, people perish, and without courage and inspiration dreams die. Rosa Parks
7- I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be. Rosa Parks
8 – To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try. Rosa Parks
9 – Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. Rosa Parks
10 – The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. Rosa Parks
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11 – It was just a matter of survivalーlike getting off the roadーso we could exist from day to day. Rosa Parks
12 – Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. Rosa Parks
13 – There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner. Rosa Parks
14 – 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. Rosa Parks
15 – Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Rosa Parks
16 – Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground. Rosa Parks
17- It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn’t feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working. Rosa Parks
18 – As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin. Rosa Parks
19 – Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference. Rosa Parks
20 – Each person must live their life as a model for others. Rosa Parks
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21 – We are not in a struggle of black against white, but wrong and right, right against wrong. Rosa Parks
22 – Knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks
23 – I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear.
I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. 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. Rosa Parks
24 – There is no future without education. Rosa Parks
25 – People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice. Rosa Parks
26 – I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen, even in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks
27- The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known, wherever we go, that all of us should be free and equal. Rosa Parks
28 – I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be. Rosa Parks
29 – If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others. Rosa Parks
30 – The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed, I suppose. Rosa Parks
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31 – 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. Rosa Parks
32 – It is better to protest than to accept injustice. Rosa Parks
33 – You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. Rosa Parks
34 – Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step. Rosa Parks
35 – I did not get on the bus to get arrested, I got on the bus to go home. Rosa Parks
36 – I will always work for human rights for all people. Rosa Parks
37- The overseer beat him, tried to starve him, wouldn’t let him have any shoes, treated him so badly that he had a very intense, passionate hatred for white people.
My grandfather was the one who instilled in my mother and her sisters, and in their children, that you don’t put up with bad treatment from anybody. It was passed down almost in our genes. Rosa Parks
38 – Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that. Rosa Parks
39 – Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child… every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin. Rosa Parks
40 – I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move. Rosa Parks
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41 – We still, today, have a long way to go and we have to continue our work. Rosa Parks
42 – I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down. Rosa Parks
43 – I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change. Rosa Parks
44 – One person can change the world. Rosa Parks
45 – 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. Rosa Parks
46 – Even when there was segregation there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us Rosa Parks
47- I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and look forward to a better day, but I don’t think there is anything such as complete happiness.
It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven’t reached that stage yet. Rosa Parks
48 – There was an opportunity for me to take a stand. Rosa Parks
49 – That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners. Rosa Parks
50 – People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.
I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks
BONUS: Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated. Rosa Parks
BONUS: What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing. Rosa Parks
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Frances Vidakovic
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