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Quote by Rosa Parks

“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”

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Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist born on February 4, 1913, and died on October 24, 2005. She is best known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, an act that sparked the civil rights movement in the United States. more

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