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In one single day, Rosa Parks made the world face the cause of equality, civil rights and justice. N... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Rosa Parks is an American hero. Her courage and moral clarity in the face of bigotry and oppression ...
KEN MEHLMAN
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the c... JIM COSTA Rosa Parks was a symbol of fighting for civil rights. She personified simple eloquence.
HILARY SHELTON
Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther Kin... DAVID CAMERON
He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rig... JESSE JACKSON In her own simple way, Rosa Parks changed the history of our nation. She forced us to recognize the ...
ADAM MAIDA Rosa is a woman that we met in the early 1990s in Peru. She was affected by the civil unrest in her ...
JUANITA FOX
There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one.... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I will go down in history as the man who robbed Rosa Parks. I'm sorry that she died. I was hoping to...
JOSEPH SKIPPER For a long time people were a little bit afraid of Rosa Parks because she had created this whole new...
JOHN CONYERS
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be r... JIM COSTA Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over ...
RALPH G. NEAS Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over ...
RALPH NEAS the legacy of Rosa Parks is more than just a success for the civil rights movement or for African-Am...
JOHN CONYERS
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this co... KINKY FRIEDMAN In the past few years, we have seen an increase in international tourism to civil rights sites, ... ...
LEE SENTELL I am very proud to claim Mrs. Parks as a resident of Michigan and to help lead the effort to honor h...
VERNON EHLERS
Rosa Parks was the inspiration... simply by the act of her being who she was, a sweet and loving and... ANDREW YOUNG Rosa Parks changed the course of history, not only for African Americans, but for all of America. ...
RICHARD M. DALEY When Nelson Mandela after 27 years in prison came to Detroit and we were there to welcome him, what ...
JOHN CONYERS Everybody wanted to explain Rosa Parks and wanted to teach Rosa Parks, but Rosa Parks wasn't very in...
JOHN CONYERS
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-ri... EMMA STONE Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to generations of African-Americans and all people of good will....
BRUCE GORDON
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equ... MARVIN AMMORI
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than th... MARY RITTER BEARD When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Rosa Parks was known as the queen mother of the movement. She sat down so that her people could stan...
JOSEPH LOWERY
The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her... C. JOYBELL C.
I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for...
JO BECKER
Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a... JESSE JACKSON Lady Conductor She raised her baton.... and Beethoven answered John C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989.
JOHN C LEHMAN
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I... JOHN LEWIS We applaud the efforts of Cindy Sheehan in Texas. We consider her the Rosa Parks of the new movement...
ROSEMARY PALMER
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children ... EZEKIEL EMANUEL As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a ...
JAMES T. WALSH It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of th...
ANTONIA FRASER
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a g... OWAIN YEOMAN
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubma... CARRIE NUGENT The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. STEPHEN COLBERT He missed an opportunity to name somebody to the courts with the spirit of Rosa Parks, with diversit...
JOSEPH LOWERY Rosa Parks was a brunet who was not ignored.
HEATHER ARNET
The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have ma... CORETTA SCOTT KING
I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I kn... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Selma, it is time for us now to put our civil war and civil rights history in the museum,
JAMES PERKINS
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. ... KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR
A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She c... AYAAN HIRSI ALI Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for f...
MARC MORIAL On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following th...
THOMAS E. PEREZ
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following th... THOMAS PEREZ What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she...
GAL GADOT But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to co...
XAVIER BECERRA She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was fee...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's... DAVE REICHERT Jimmy arranged to buy the film rights to the book. He wanted to meet her and interview her in Decemb...
CAROLINE LELAND I remember her screening quite well. I remembered before I found the questionnaire that some of her ...
LOUISE YOUNG
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on str... BESS TRUMAN I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if sh...
BRUCE FORSYTH
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
ALICE LONGWORTH
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody ...
ALAN AUTRY You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice,
sometimes you can sit for your righ...
HARMON OKINYO
A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, m... TARAJI P. HENSON
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in ... JESSE JACKSON Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any wom...
AUDREY MEADOWS
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads... JULES RENARD Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and at...
NAOMI KLEIN At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Right...
KEITH ELLISON
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other state... SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman f...
MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natura... LYSANDER SPOONER We can't understand what we've accomplished on civil rights without telling the story of Bay...
THOMAS E. PEREZ A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT [The former South African president led the crowd in a chant of Parks' name,] which made us realize ...
JOHN CONYERS The woman said she arrived in Cancun on December 27 and that day met a man named Brad staying at a C...
CHARLES MATHEWS
I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, wa... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes f...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT She was a pioneer in so many ways in terms of integrating the team with the community, in terms of u...
LESLIE HEAPHY
For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhap... ALANA STEWART John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r...
DEBRA NESS
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monro... BEYONCE KNOWLES Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people w...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a sl...
CAROL ARAULLO
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. CHRISTIAN DIOR Cindy Sheehan has become the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement, ... She's tired, fed up and she's ...
LENNOX YEARWOOD
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa P... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly impo... SHELLEY FABARES Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in ... DAN WAKEFIELD
The Rosa Parks Story. ROSA PARKS Governor Schwarzenegger made the right decision to sign into law significant improvements to a signi...
JOHN LAIRD I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a phys...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's...
RICHARD ENGEL
There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite... OLIVIA THIRLBY
A woman's health is her capital. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country. ELIZABETH ESTY
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I've loved reading all my life. 
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ... 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
Rome was not built in one day. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr... 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo... 
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw... 
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre... 
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. 
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g... 
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec... 
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima... 
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. 
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. 
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one... 
We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ... 
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. 
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t... 
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit... 