"I said I don't think I should have to stand up."

And yet by remaining to sit, she stood for so many.


"People always say 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." (from "My Story")

Goodbye, Mrs. Parks, God bless and thank you.