“The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.” RealCourageSacrificeKingsBraveryParksLutherRosaPersonal Sacrifice Author:Pete Seeger
“The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine.” WorldMeanTwoGovernmentSpiritualMovingPoliticalCitiesClassMillionsBuildingTheoryCivilizationMassConcernedIdealsMachinesCaughtPracticalsGoodsPreachingGoverningManufacturingLivelihoodRosaCoordinates Author:Thurman Arnold
“The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.” KnowsWorldSimpleDignityFoundationBlowParksBigotryRosa Author:William J. Clinton
“I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?” FightingLeftSidesKnownParksJailBeatenRosaFighting For Freedom Author:Ralph Abernathy
“If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.” IfsMightMovingHeardKingsParksBusDrsLutherRosaDr Martin Luther King Author:Ramsey Clark
“The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.” ImportantRightsMovementVictoryCivil RightsRememberedParksCivil Rights MovementCatalystRosaCivil Right Movement Author:Jim Costa