If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
Rosa ParksI had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
Rosa ParksPeople have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.
Rosa Parks