Frasi di Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
Data di nascita: 4. Febbraio 1913
Data di morte: 24. Ottobre 2005
Rosa Louise Parks è stata un'attivista statunitense figura-simbolo del movimento per i diritti civili, famosa per aver rifiutato nel 1955 di cedere il posto su un autobus a un bianco, dando così origine al boicottaggio degli autobus a Montgomery.
Frasi Rosa Parks
„I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.“
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
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
"Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary", National Public Radio (1992), linked at "Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4973548, NPR, October 25, 2005.
Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
Quoted in 2008-07-01, The Story Behind the Bus, Rosa Parks Bus, The Henry Ford http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/rosaparks/story.asp, (2002)
Quoted in "Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks," http://womenshalloffame.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=117 Women's National Hall of Fame (undated); said upon her 77th birthday (1990-02-04)
„The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.“
Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
Contesto: 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.
