Austin Aney

“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, [...] the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
― Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks: My Story

“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
― Rosa Parks

“The overseer beat him, tried to starve him, wouldn't let him have any shoes, treated him so badly that he had a very intense, passionate hatred for white people. My grandfather was the one who instilled in my mother and her sisters, and in their children, that you don't put up with bad treatment from anybody. It was passed down almost in our genes,”
― Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks: My Story

“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American soldiers werre returning from World War Iasn acting as if they deserved equal rights because they had served their country.”
― Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks: My Story