I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
Where these words come from
- 60% sureLots of sources credit Rosa Parks with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," Time (14 June 1999) — contemporaneous, reputable secondary source.
