139 Quotes by Rosa Parks

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.

I want to be treated like a human being.

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. 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.