Rosa Parks"Well, in the first place, I had been working all day on the job.  I was quite tired after spending a full day working.  I handle and work on clothing that white people wear.  That didn't come in my mind but this is what I wanted to know:  when and how would we ever deterine our rights as human beings?...It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand."
 
--Rosa Parks, 1956
as quoted in Howard Zinn's
A People's History of the United States