Rosa Quotes
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The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
Alice Besterman
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Rosa Parks` courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
Al Weed
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Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
Alice Besterman
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Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
Alvin Sykes
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Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation`s civil rights history.
Allan Cribbins
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Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to generations of African-Americans and all people of good will. More than an icon, Mrs. Parks is symbolic of the thousands of courageous NAACP workers who fight for civil rights in their communities.
Bruce Gordon
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Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.
Allan Cribbins
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Make Rosa Parks proud. We should say `no` every time our civil rights have been denied.
Awilda Cordero
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It`s just horribly unfair. The GO Zone extends to Baldwin County in Alabama, but doesn`t recognize the damage caused (in Escambia and Santa Rosa) by Dennis.
Richard Hawkins
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It was a fitting tribute to Rosa Parks, ... There`s no question. She means so much, not only to Montgomery and to the state, but to the entire world.
John Knight
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In many ways, history is marked as `before` and `after` Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
Jesse Jackson
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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Kinky Friedman
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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.
Amy Myers Jaffe
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I was in the Santa Rosa Musician`s Union. Get gigs, come out and play. Four or five guys who never played together show up and play dance music.
Dan Hicks
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I don`t care about a 12 inch sea turtle. They seem to be better off that the people [Santa Rosa County] is trying to help.
Barbara Levin
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I didn`t want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.
Ashley Postell
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following the arrest of Rosa Parks, Judge Johnson ruled that African-Americans of Montgomery, Alabama, were acting within their constitutional rights when they organized a boycott of the buses and that Martin Luther King Jr. and others could march from Se...
Ann DeGroot
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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.
Bill Clinton
