Top 29 Quotes by Rosa Parks

About Rosa Parks

These are some quotes by American author Rosa Parks Activist, who lived between February 4, 1913 and October 24, 2005.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Rosa Parks

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

Rosa Parks

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.

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

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 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

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

Rosa Parks

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Rosa Parks

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.

Rosa Parks

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