I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us. -Rosa Parks Equality
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. -Rosa Parks Alone
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. -Rosa Parks Equality
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages. -Rosa Parks Teacher
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. -Rosa Parks Freedom
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks Fear
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in. -Rosa Parks Time
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human. -Rosa Parks Home
