9 Inspirational Quotes From Rosa Parks, an Icon of the Civil Rights Movement

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made history when she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala.

Her subsequent arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal milestone in the Civil Rights Movement that led the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s ruling that racial segregation on public buses violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

Parks passed away in 2005 at 92, but her legacy lives on. Now, 68 years after that important moment in Black history, we remember some of Parks’ most captivating quotes about the importance of standing up for what you believe in.