Frases célebres de Rosa Parks
“Cada persona debe vivir su vida como un modelo para otros.”
Fuente: Citado en Freeman, Iam A. Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volumen 1. Editorial iUniverse, 2014. ISBN 978-14-4018-530-4, p. 559.
“La única cansada era yo, cansada de ceder.”
Sin fuentes
Sobre el día que se negó a ceder el asiento.
Fuente: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2013)
Rosa Parks Frases y Citas
“Ni siquiera tenía certeza de que sobreviviría aquel día.”
Sin fuentes
Tras preguntarle si sabía que su acto tendría tal impacto.
Fuente: Quiet Strength : the Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation.
“No subí al autobús para que me arrestaran; subí al autobús para ir a casa.”
Original: «I did not get on the bus to get arrested; I got on the bus to go home».
Fuente: (En inglés.) «Today in History: December 1.» http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/today/dec01.html The Library of Congress. Consultado el 25 de septiembre de 2019.
Fuente: Quiet Strength : the Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation.
Rosa Parks: Frases en inglés

Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”
Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis
Quoted in "Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks," http://womenshalloffame.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=117 Women's National Hall of Fame (undated); said upon her 77th birthday (1990-02-04)
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
Contexto: People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Quoted in 2008-07-01, The Story Behind the Bus, Rosa Parks Bus, The Henry Ford http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/rosaparks/story.asp, (2002)
"Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary", National Public Radio (1992), linked at "Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4973548, NPR, October 25, 2005.
Rosa Park speech to social activists assembled in Washington, D.C. ( 1995) http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/2316-rosa-parks-speech-at-the-million-man-march)
Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1 Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)
Quiet Strength (2000)