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.
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