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If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

— Ramsey Clark

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✓Similar Perspectives

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

— Mary Frances Berry

I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Douglas Brinkley

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

— Douglas Brinkley

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

— Douglas Brinkley

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

— Jay-Z

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

— Douglas Brinkley

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.

— John Lewis

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

— Ralph Abernathy

✗Opposing Perspectives

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

— Kinky Friedman

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

— John Lewis