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Letter "R" » Rosa Parks Quotes
«All I was doing was trying to get home from work.»
«Why do you all push us around?»
«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.»
«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.»
«Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?»
«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,»
«Her act of civil disobedience, for which she was willing to pay the price to end the rein of terror, got her arrested.»
«My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.»
«I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also free.»