I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
RP
Rosa ParksAs quoted by Rita Dove in Time (1999)
About Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist whose bus protest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (1913-2005)
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