“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
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African-American civil rights activist 1913–2005Related quotes
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
Context: People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Widely quoted, including Freedomways, p. 240 (Second quarter, 1965). This quote was later employed as her epitaph, and used by American singer and songwriter Anastacia at her song Sick and Tired.
“First of all:
I am tired.
I am true of heart!
And also:
You are tired.
You are true of heart!”
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)
