God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me. - Rosa Parks
" "God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me.
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About Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". She is best remembered for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat so a white man could sit in the row.
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Rosa Louise McCauley
Native Name:
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
Alternative Names:
Rosa "Lee" Louise McCauley Parks
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I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time... there was an opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.
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