I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom… — Rosa Parks · Smartyfair

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Rosa Parks1913–2005 · activist · 1900s-2000s USARosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal moment in the fight against racial segregation in the United States.5 quotes

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She wanted to be remembered for caring that everyone gets a fair go.

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How sure this is: 55% 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.
What turned up: Quoted in "Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks," Women's National Hall of Fame (undated); said upon her 77th birthday, 4 Feb 1990.
Occasion: 1990
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Quotes section, Women's National Hall of Fame

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