Rosa Parks - Person Quotes

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It takes more than one person to bring about peace — it takes all of us.

Rosa Parks

Most of all, I want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted others to be free.

Rosa Parks

I 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 Parks

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

Rosa Parks

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Rosa Parks