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  1. DEARBORN, MI - APRIL 19: In this handout from The White House, US President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event April 18, 2012 in Dearborn, Michigan.
  2. Occupy protesters pose for a group photo holding a banner of Rosa Parks December 1, 2011 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial before the start of the 'Walkupy' march in Washington, DC. Fifty-Five years ago today, Parks refused to move from a 'Whites Only Section' of the bus on her...
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  1. I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.
    – Rosa Parks SOURCE: OpPapers.com 1 month ago
  2. To us, she's become something of the Rosa Parks of the foreclosure and bank reform movement ... At a certain point there's a personality that galvanizes public opinion in such as way that it becomes transcendent. It's much bigger than her home.
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2 weeks ago
  3. It also used to be illegal for black and white people to marry. Rosa Parks knew the rules when she refused to give up her seat. I'm here to tell you just because somebody said it one time doesn’t make it right.
    SOURCE: CNN 2 weeks ago
  4. You mean like the white people were wrong not to let Rosa Parks sit in the front of the bus?
    SOURCE: Wired 3 weeks ago
  5. You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene — just a very special person ... There was only one Rosa Parks
    – John Conyers Jr. SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  6. I actually had the chance to sit in Rosa Parks' bus -- I just sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history
    SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago
  7. I actually had the chance to sit in Rosa Parks' bus ... I just sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history, but is also a part of that long line of folks -- sometimes nameless, oftentimes didn't make the history books -- but who constantly insiste...
    – Barack Obama SOURCE: USA Today 1 month ago
  8. Can you imagine Rosa Parks Circle filled up with hundreds of people literally just standing up for what they believe in?
    SOURCE: MLive.com 1 month ago
  9. The civil rights organizations forgot about him ... once they had Rosa Parks.
    – Robert Young SOURCE: New York Daily News 1 month ago
  10. The Board showed a remarkable commitment to edible education by continuing to fund the garden and cooking programs at Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Washington next year ... The decision is dependent on the district receiving Network for a Healthy California funding. We are still waiting for more informatio...
    SOURCE: Berkeleyside 1 month ago
  11. When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to go to the back of the bus if we had focused on the bus-driver and not on the states rights law, we would have missed the point... We must not just settle for Zimmerman, we must repeal the Stand Your Ground Law.
    SOURCE: The Nation 1 month ago
  12. We’re a lot alike ... We’re both from the South and we both date outside our race. I’m from the heart of the civil rights movement: Montgomery, Alabama. There’s a reference to Rosa Parks in my show and Rosa Parks is my cousin.
    SOURCE: PennLive.com 1 month ago
  13. You see Zimmerman is the mailman, but we have to look at the post office. It's not enough for Rosa Parks to get some relief. We needed a public accommodations bill, that's why the bill that encourages vigilantism must be addressed
    – Jesse Jackson, Jr. (politician) SOURCE: WESH 1 month ago
  14. We have found our own Rosa Parks
    SOURCE: The Washington Post 1 month ago
  15. Katniss’ act of self-sacrifice [volunteering to take her sister’s place in the games] is a trigger for an entire revolution. She draws an ethical line that she won’t cross over and it serves as such a beautiful example for people ... That assertion of her own individual ethics ultimately triggers a revo...
    – Gary Ross SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 1 month ago
  16. We are one step closer to having those property interests reinstated as Mrs. Parks wanted, in accordance with the Supreme Court order. Then Rosa Parks' longtime wishes will finally be respected ... All we wanted to do was give the institute a chance to continue its mission after (Parks) died.
    SOURCE: Detroit News Online 2 months ago
  17. We are one step closer to having those property interests reinstated as Mrs. Parks wanted, in accordance with the Supreme Court order. Then Rosa Parks' longtime wishes will finally be respected ... All we wanted to do was give the institute a chance to continue its mission after (Parks) died.
    SOURCE: Detroit News Online 2 months ago
  18. We only know the big people like [Martin Luther King Jr.] and Rosa Parks, but they wouldn’t be where they are without the little people
    SOURCE: TCU Daily Skiff 2 months ago
  19. My favourite verse goes, 'Some set fire to crosses', as in the KKK, 'some fight to ride the bus they choose', as in Rosa Parks, 'some don't believe at all but will do anything to make the news', like a Kardashian. I want to put together a video with all the imagery from the lyrics and put it on YouTube.
    SOURCE: NEWS.com.au 2 months ago
  20. We were dismayed last year to learn that for many students, civil rights education boils down to two people and four words: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and 'I have a dream,' ... This report moves from diagnosis to treatment by providing states with clear standards for improving the teaching of th...
    SOURCE: Everything Alabama 2 months ago
  21. Me and four other students went to our dean and told him that we wanted to meet Dr. King and Rosa Parks to interview them for our papers
    SOURCE: The University Kansan 2 months ago
  22. Fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks took a stance against all these discriminations and laws in the South, now it’s happening again but this time only to the Latino community
    SOURCE: Press TV 2 months ago
  23. These [district lines] are an attack on Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, and we can’t allow that to happen ... We’re not looking for favors or handouts, we’re asking to demand our fair share of power.
    SOURCE: Brooklyn Paper 2 months ago
  24. Before Martin Luther King, before Rosa Parks, there were the Tuskegee Airmen that excelled in what they never thought they’d do before.
    SOURCE: The Crimson White 2 months ago
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