Rosa Parks

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

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

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