I only knew that [as] I was being arrested it was the last time I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind, |
I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back. |
I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being, |
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also free. |
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. |
if she could not survive as humble and as sweet as she was in a segregated society ? nobody could survive. |
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. |
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's very sad, very sad, |
It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt that way about him, and that's how he felt about me. |
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. |
mother of the civil rights movement. |
Mother Parks, take your rest. |
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. |
No, |