Rosa Parks Quotes
I didn't want to. I didn't think I should have to. I didn't feel that it was the right thing for us to be enduring. 
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When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that 'no, I wasn't,' and he told me if I did not stand up he was going to have me arrested. And, I told him to go on and have me arrested.
- Rosa Parks
He was the first, aside from my grandfather and Mr. Gus Vaughn, who was never actually afraid of white people... So many African Americans felt that you just had to be under Mr. Charlie's heel - that's what we called the white man, Mr. Charlie - and couldn't do anything to cross him. In other words, Parks believed in being a man and expected to be treated as a man.
- Rosa Parks