45+ Inspiring Rosa Parks Quotes That Teach You to Stand for Your Right

Quotes from Rosa Parks

• "Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that." -Rosa Parks.

• "Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way." -Rosa Parks.

• "You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." -Rosa Parks.

• "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.

• "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." -Rosa Parks.

• "To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try." -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." -Rosa Parks.

• "God has always given me the strength to say what is right." -Rosa Parks.

• "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free." -Rosa Parks.

• “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, Rosa Parks: My Story

• “One of my greatest pleasures there was enjoying the smell of bacon frying and coffee brewing and knowing that white folks were doing the preparing instead of me. I was 42 years old, and it was one of the few times in my life up to that point when I did not feel any hostility from white people.” ― Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks: My Story

• “What I learned best at Miss White's school 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.” ― Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks: My Story

• “We had a saying that we worked "from can to can't," which means working from when you can see (sunup) to when you can't (sundown).” ― Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks: My Story

• “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

• “It was just a matter of survivalーlike getting off the roadーso we could exist form day to day.” ― Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks: My Story

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Quotes by Rosa Parks

• “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.”

• “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes the fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

• “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

• “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”

• “Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

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

• “I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.”

• “From the time I was a child, I tried to protest against disrespectful treatment.”

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

• “Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.”

• “I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”

• “Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

• “There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took one more step, someone would come along to join me.”

• “It is better to teach or live equality and love … than to have hatred and prejudice.”

• “I’d see the bus pass every day. But to me, that was a way of life. We had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a Black world and a white world.”

• “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.”