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Rosa Parks
Geburtstag: 4. Februar 1913
Todesdatum: 24. Oktober 2005
Rosa Louise Parks war eine US-amerikanische Bürgerrechtlerin. Die Afroamerikanerin war am 1. Dezember 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama festgenommen worden, weil sie sich geweigert hatte, ihren Sitzplatz im Bus für einen weißen Fahrgast zu räumen. Dies löste den Busboykott von Montgomery aus, der neben den Protesten im Fall Emmett Till als Anfang der schwarzen Bürgerrechtsbewegung gilt, die das Ende der sogenannten Jim-Crow-Gesetze herbeiführte.
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„Ich wollte nur frei sein, wie jeder andere auch. Ich wollte nicht immerzu gedemütigt werden, wegen etwas, auf das ich keinen Einfluss hatte: Die Farbe meiner Haut.“
50 Klassiker, Prozesse, Berühmte Rechtsfälle von der Antike bis heute dargestellt von Marie Sagenschneider; Verlag: Gerstenberg Visuell, S. 220 - 225
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„Irgendwann muss man einmal »Halt!« sagen […], um diesen ständigen Schikanen ein Ende zu bereiten und herauszufinden, auf welche Menschenrechte ich Anspruch hatte.“
über Rassendiskriminierung, 50 Klassiker, Prozesse, Berühmte Rechtsfälle von der Antike bis heute dargestellt von Marie Sagenschneider; Verlag: Gerstenberg Visuell, S. 220 - 225
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„From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh.“
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
„I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.“
Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)
„I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.“
"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.
„God has always given me the strength to say what is right… I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me.“
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
