Rosa Parks Treated Quotations

He was the first, aside from my grandfather and Mr. Gus Vaughn, who was never actually afraid of white people, ... So many African Americans felt that you just had to be under Mr. Charlie's heel - that's what we called the white man, Mr. Charlie - and couldn't do anything to cross him. In other words, Parks believed in being a man and expected to be treated as a man.

I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,

the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long.

You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person,

I want to be treated like a human being.