I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
Where these words come from
- 60% sureLots of sources credit Rosa Parks with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," Time (14 June 1999) — contemporaneous, reputable secondary source.
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Rosa ParksI would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.Rosa ParksI 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.Rosa ParksI do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.Rosa Parks
Rosa ParksI would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.Rosa ParksI 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.Rosa ParksI do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.Rosa ParksMore on individuality
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar WildeNot all who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.Oscar WildeWe will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.Ralph Waldo EmersonAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
Oscar WildeNot all who wander are lost.J.R.R. Tolkien'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.Oscar WildeWe will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.Ralph Waldo EmersonThe imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.Ralph Waldo EmersonAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.Judy Garland