“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
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Sources: Photograph of Rosa Parks taken in 1955 / National Archives and Records Administration Records of the U.S. Information Agency Record Group 306, record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93) / Wikimedia Commons / Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992) / Wikiquote
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Bernadette Latre
November 23, 2022 at 9:24 am
People always distort things..making her and old woman in stories didn’t show her as a power woman but vulnerable instead. Which was wrong she wasn’t tired… just fed up of stupid racism.. 😒
Harry W
February 11, 2023 at 5:36 pm
The USA of hate and the brexit Britain are full of misogynistic assholes 🙄