“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”

—  Rosa Parks

Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis

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African-American civil rights activist 1913–2005

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