US civil rights leader.
Her refusal to give up bus seat to a white man initiated a bus boycott and sparked the civil rights movement; won Spingarn, 1978.
I believe that we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
In "The Meaning of Life," "Life," Dec 1988.
R:
In "The Meaning of Life," "Life," Dec 1988.
A:
On her refusal to give up her bus seat; workshop at the Highland Folk School, Monteagle, TN, Mar 1956.
N:
In "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations," by James B. Simpson, 1988.
