I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore. When I asked the driver why he was treating me like this, he said, 'I'll have you arrested.'
Civil rights activist
Autobiography, 'Rosa Parks: My Story'
1955 (event), 1992 (book)
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"I was treated as a human being. I was not treated as a Negro."
Strange & Unusual"I was arrested on December 1st, 1955 for refusing to stand up on the orders of the bus driver, after the white seats had been occupied in the front."
Strange & Unusual"All I was doing was trying to get home from work."
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