139 Quotes by Rosa Parks

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

I didn't want to. I didn't think I should have to. I didn't feel that it was the right thing for us to be enduring.

He was the first, aside from my grandfather and Mr. Gus Vaughn, who was never actually afraid of white people, ... So many African Americans felt that you just had to be under Mr. Charlie's heel - that's what we called the white man, Mr. Charlie - and couldn't do anything to cross him. In other words, Parks believed in being a man and expected to be treated as a man.

I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,

People are exploiting it, ... We are very concerned about that.

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

was the catalyst of one of the most important freedom movements not only in American history but in world history .. indeed she became the symbol and personification of our nonviolent struggle for liberation and human dignity.

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.

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.