The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
RP
Rosa ParksRosa Parks: My Story (1992)
About Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist whose bus protest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (1913-2005)
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- I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.Quiet Strength (2000)
- I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.Remarks on her 77th birthday (1990)
- I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.As quoted by Rita Dove in Time (1999)
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- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.Galileo Galilei
- In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.Galileo Galilei
- Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.Leonardo da Vinci
- The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.Plato
- It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.Socrates
- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.Confucius
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