People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.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.”
“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
Civil rights activist · 1913 – 2005
A seamstress and NAACP activist in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger on 1 December 1955. Her arrest sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott and made her an enduring icon of the American civil rights movement.
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