My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
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It was just a matter of survival... of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl and hearing the Ku Klux Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.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 this stuff at school. They talk mostly about military tactics and how wars were won.
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
I only knew that as I was being arrested it was the last time I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind,
Rosa Parks
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
Rosa Parks
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
Rosa Parks
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