I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
In plain words
She wanted to be remembered for caring that everyone gets a fair go.
Where these words come from
- 55% 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 "Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks," Women's National Hall of Fame (undated); said upon her 77th birthday, 4 Feb 1990.
