Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Parks once said “When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was change. But they couldn’t rest on just that change. It has to continue.”
Born on February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist in Tuskegee, Ala. On the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in the U.S. states of California and Ohio.
To remember her special day today, here are 3 of her memorable quotes that touched everyone’s life and did a big change to the world.