I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
Regarding the day in 1955 on which Ms. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus for a white man. Widely considered the beginning of the US Civil Rights movement.
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Parks, Rosa. Quoted in Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written by David Garrow. William Morrow, 1988, ch. 1.
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