Rosa Parks quote: "It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt that way about him, and that's how he felt about me."

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I ...
ROSA PARKS

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,...
ROSA PARKS

I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... In...
ROSA PARKS

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel l...
ROSA PARKS

Why do you all push us around?
ROSA PARKS

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

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions ...
ROSA PARKS

I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for...
ROSA PARKS

I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around...
ROSA PARKS

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people cou...
ROSA PARKS

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing wha...
ROSA PARKS

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

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human be...
ROSA PARKS

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient f...
ROSA PARKS

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against a...
ROSA PARKS

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason a...
ROSA PARKS

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also fre...
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 wo...
ROSA PARKS

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the sal...
ROSA PARKS

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...
ROSA PARKS

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other d...
ROSA PARKS

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
ROSA PARKS

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the...
ROSA PARKS

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
ROSA PARKS

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

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

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel lik...
ROSA PARKS

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and pro...
ROSA PARKS

I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKS

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what mu...
ROSA PARKS

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better da...
ROSA PARKS

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over...
ROSA PARKS

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

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport i...
ROSA PARKS

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKS

No,
ROSA PARKS

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 ...
ROSA PARKS

You may do that,
ROSA PARKS

It's very sad, very sad,
ROSA PARKS

I heard that she sat down on the bus. That is all that I know. They don't tell you too much about th...
ROSA PARKS

People are exploiting it, ... We are very concerned about that.
ROSA PARKS

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS

failing to obey the order of bus driver.
ROSA PARKS

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also fr...
ROSA PARKS

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better da...
ROSA PARKS

I only knew that [as] I was being arrested it was the last time I would ever ride in humiliation of ...
ROSA PARKS

Mother Parks, take your rest.
ROSA PARKS

so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.
ROSA PARKS

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet,...
ROSA PARKS

Her act of civil disobedience, for which she was willing to pay the price to end the rein of terror,...
ROSA PARKS

I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,
ROSA PARKS

the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passe...
ROSA PARKS

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this, ... It was just a day like any oth...
ROSA PARKS

You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person,
ROSA PARKS

He pointed at me and said, 'that one won't stand up.' The two policemen came near me and only one sp...
ROSA PARKS

When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that...
ROSA PARKS

The Rosa Parks Story.
ROSA PARKS

The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
ROSA PARKS

was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than any...
ROSA PARKS

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

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in,
ROSA PARKS

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.
ROSA PARKS

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free ...
ROSA PARKS

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these do...
GORDON PARKS

Make good habits and they will make you.
PARKS COUSINS

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
PARKS COUSINS

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I re...
GORDON PARKS

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
GORDON PARKS

I don't think we're going to have an option.
BERNARD PARKS

It's the timing, closeness and proximity,
BERNARD PARKS

Not all the speculation by friends, relatives, prior employees that have some judgment about individ...
BERNARD PARKS

Having known Mr. Patton for a number of years personally, it was a shock to me to find this incident...
BERNARD PARKS

We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an app...
BERNARD PARKS

The NFL is going to have a say on who's going to come here. The Coliseum has no role in selecting a ...
BERNARD PARKS

We have taken since September to this date to investigate what Perez has said he has done as an offi...
BERNARD PARKS

We have to be in a situation that understands the importance of some of this evidence, ... There may...
BERNARD PARKS

We're just pleased that he did not carry out a more spectacular plan,
BERNARD PARKS

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for i...
GORDON PARKS

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and,...
GORDON PARKS

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil...
GORDON PARKS

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is enterin...
GORDON PARKS

The band was an extracurricular activity. But Earl had the ability to encourage people and push them...
BOB PARKS

I was so happy to meet an upbeat, understanding person such as Earl Mays because in the time I was a...
BOB PARKS

If this settles the issue and allows us to move on with our business, then that's what I'm going to ...
BOB PARKS

This has become almost surreal. I don't think I'd be much of a person if I allowed one special-inter...
BOB PARKS

That's raised his stock in my eyes.
BOB PARKS

The concept really is driven by need and our need to attract teachers. If we employ about 2,400 new ...
BOB PARKS

A lot of makers and inventors are really proud of their barbecue-powered pool heater, or whatever it...
BOB PARKS

When I read in the newspaper that he was going to Jacksonville, I'd have preferred that he at least ...
BOB PARKS

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at...
GORDON PARKS

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of fai...
GORDON PARKS

[Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Schwartz described Parks' relationship as] schoolgirl infatuation ....
CAROL PARKS

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a h...
GORDON PARKS

Money is available to but people are not applying. We urge people who are eligible to apply now and ...
WENDY PARKS

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibit...
GORDON PARKS

Terence was one of the people I was listening to a lot back then. After I worked with him, I thought...
AARON PARKS

He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS

She put out a persona that wasn't really her. Once I found out who she really was, I found out she w...
SINGIN PARKS

[The prosecutor played recorded telephone conversations between the couple in which Parks expressed ...
CAROL PARKS

They're winners, everyone!
BERT PARKS

The results in this department reflects a high level of officer enthusiasm to do their job, and that...
BERNARD PARKS

there are very few clues ...
BERNARD PARKS

We can't ignore that the federal government, the FBI, is certainly going to have a role in this,
BERNARD PARKS

We file thousands of cases a year as a police agency, ... We know what the criteria is to file a cas...
BERNARD PARKS

We need the federal government because of a couple of issues, ... We believe that there may be issue...
BERNARD PARKS

We look forward to this partnership, to get to the bottom of, to resolve this scandal,
BERNARD PARKS

I think it's been really successful. You can just tell a lot of kids are really responding.
ASHLEY PARKS

I was always a freak about nature when it came to animals.
ASHLEY PARKS

A lot of people do it on their own because the prices are kind of expensive, like, $50 to get a pier...
AMANDA PARKS

A lot of people do it on their own because the prices are kind of expensive, like $50 to get a pierc...
AMANDA PARKS

It has a lace cap bloom that is not terribly impressive to me. I am waiting to see if the fall color...
LES PARKS

Folks need to learn to keep their engine shrouds clean.
MIKE PARKS

The buzzword in the industry is that average recommendations for average conditions provide average ...
SID PARKS

Playboy is an American icon and I am so excited to have been chosen as one of the models for this fe...
RACHEL PARKS

As far as (South African) President Mandela is concerned, it is immaterial whether the bombing is re...
PARKS MANKAHLANA

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they b...
GORDON PARKS

I presented a gift card and was (later) informed it had been significantly reduced due to different ...
DAVID PARKS

We used tie wraps around his wrists and legs.
KEN PARKS

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the u...
GORDON PARKS

I don't try to make the first move; I always wait for them to make it. He was trying to go for my le...
GORDON PARKS

A Hungry Heart
GORDON PARKS

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with leg...
GORDON PARKS

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you o...
NATHAN PARKS

We are working extremely hard to contact our customers to work with them to avoid disconnection. We'...
WENDY PARKS

We are looking at well over 56,000 customers who are in danger of disconnection. However, the good n...
WENDY PARKS

Today, most people tend to judge others more physically than mentally.
RICK PARKS

When death finds you at gunpoint, you should know when you shall leave.
RICK PARKS

The political culture in Arizona is vastly different from New York State. Arizona government is hone...
BILL PARKS

Nowadays you have to worry about your children constantly each day, wherever they go. It is a crap s...
BILL PARKS

We forgot how we got to that point. We're disappointed, we thought we had a chance to scratch one ou...
BILL PARKS

Someone once told me it doesn't hurt to be nice to people and you've certainly proven that is true.
BILL PARKS

He doesn't tell people how to play. Silence is a good thing. If he's happy, he doesn't say much.
AARON PARKS

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I reali...
GORDON PARKS

I want to go home. They're waiting for me there.
GORDON PARKS

I have a strange feeling back here, ... I can't explain it. It's a strange mixture of the tragedies ...
GORDON PARKS

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long ...
GORDON PARKS

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
GORDON PARKS

I don't understand the rationale used in your March review of the best ISPs. What a nightmare! I hav...
DAVID PARKS

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not...
GORDON PARKS

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
GORDON PARKS

Photojournalism provokes conversation and thought, which all good journalism should do. The exhibiti...
MICHAEL PARKS

There's no actions taken on the letters whatsoever,
CAROL PARKS

I think their patience had an effect on us not shooting the ball very well, because we didn't have t...
DENNY PARKS

They're an impressive team, especially on the defensive side. They played a lot harder than we did, ...
DENNY PARKS

I wanted us to play hard for 32 minutes. I thought except for that little three-minute stretch in th...
DENNY PARKS

It was a little bit of a dagger. But, it could have gone the other way and not counted. It was right...
DENNY PARKS

What we're doing now wouldn't hold up in court.
BUDDY PARKS

Boca Raton leads the state of Florida in its provision of outdoor green space to its residents. We w...
BUDDY PARKS

We will surely work with them to provide some linear areas for botanical gardens along trails and bi...
BUDDY PARKS

He started doing one thing and seeing things were getting better. He was able to be in touch with a ...
CHARLES PARKS

He certainly would have felt it was an honor to have his final service in a church he couldn't have ...
CHARLES PARKS

The biggest thing is the architect didn't have a contractor involved on the project from the beginni...
DAVID PARKS

I call the entire report into question.
DAVID PARKS

[And this past Christmas, a friend of Parks' tried to use one at a food establishment.] He presented...
DAVID PARKS

a single question loomed large, dwarfing every fear of death or wounds: What will battle really be l...
DAVID PARKS

You will only have copyright in a society that places a very high value on the individual, the indiv...
TIM PARKS

I really believe God has anointed me to have these talents so one day I'll be able to touch people a...
GEORGE PARKS

I owe this all to Mr. Harris; he's the man. If it weren't for him I wouldn't be here.
GEORGE PARKS

We didn't have the energy to stay in it.
GEORGE PARKS

Come to the meeting with an open mind. Listen to what is being said, even if you don't believe. Just...
GEORGE PARKS

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let o...
GORDON PARKS

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that f...
GORDON PARKS

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
GORDON PARKS

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.
GORDON PARKS

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fa...
GORDON PARKS

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to pe...
GORDON PARKS

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the im...
GORDON PARKS

We talk about buying food and cooking on a limited income.
JANICE PARKS

Over the stove, we share personal family history. Where did your grandparents come from? What did yo...
JANICE PARKS

For us, it's all about the next generation. This is about a sense of community.
JANICE PARKS

What I’m suggesting then is that much of our response to novels may have to do with the kind of �...
TIM PARKS

Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn’t hurt as much as...
KATHY PARKS

We look at what strengths the kids do have and try to build on those assets. And most importantly te...
MARK PARKS

I along with many others really question the way they've packaged the field house with the technolog...
LARRY PARKS

If there's no contamination now, that doesn't mean that later some won't push up somewhere. It's imp...
LARRY PARKS

I wouldn't want anybody to go through this once, much less twice. But she's had this heart for 10 ye...
LARRY PARKS

[5. In his essay] Can Gold Producers Survive By Promoting Jewelry?, ... At the end of the day, to re...
LARRY PARKS

Hopefully, it's not packed with people and homes with small lots. I'd like to see a lot of residenti...
LARRY PARKS

My customers who arrange flowers are fond of this because green flowers are trendy right now.
LES PARKS

I was running on Saturday, the day after he passed away, and I went by a corner where we frequently ...
MARSHALL PARKS

What we hope to do in these kind of situations is agree on a separation agreement. We did something ...
MARSHALL PARKS

I had conversations with the entire (women's basketball) staff today, and it was basically to try an...
MARSHALL PARKS

This course will be a pleasant surprise to everyone.
MIKE PARKS

We are pleased to have Gary Shapiro present our Luncheon Keynote. The issue of digital rights is tru...
TRICIA PARKS

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
ROSA LUXEMBURG

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 dis...
ROSA DELAURO

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last r...
ROSA LUXEMBURG

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Ir...
ROSA DELAURO

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the wo...
ROSA LUXEMBURG

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
ROSA LUXEMBURG

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leader...
ROSA LUXEMBURG

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.
ROSA BONHEUR

I wear American Apparel jeans every day of my life.
ROSA SALAZAR

Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It p...
ROSA LUXEMBURG

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution ...
ROSA LUXEMBURG

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to ...
ROSA DELAURO

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masse...
ROSA LUXEMBURG

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat...
ROSA DELAURO

It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt that way about him, and that's how he felt about me.

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It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt that way about him, and that's how he felt about me.

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