Top 100 Rosa Quotes

#1. What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

Rosa Brooks

#2. The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

Rosa Montero

#3. When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.

Rosa Parks

#4. It was, come to think of it, the first time anyone had thought to try strangling him. Manuel found it to be disappointingly effective.

Nathan Crowder

#5. Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!

Rosa Bonheur

#6. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

Justine Larbalestier

#7. He is my normal. He is my home. He's alive. And I love him.

Alex Rosa

#8. I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Rosa Parks

#9. Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

Rosa Luxemburg

#10. Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Rosa Parks

#11. People's true nature comes to the fore as soon as things start to go wrong.

Rosa Montero

#12. I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

Stephen Colbert

#13. If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

Rosa Parks

#14. I'd see the bus pass every day ... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

Rosa Parks

#15. 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

#16. Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths - until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa

Margarita Engle

#18. Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?

Rosa Parks

#19. There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take ... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Rosa Parks

#20. She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten out inside, as light and fragile as a pine log infested with white ant

Peter Carey

#21. There is no future without education.

Rosa Parks

#22. I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.

Rosa Parks

#23. ... Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.

Markus Zusak

#24. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

#25. Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

Markus Zusak

#26. Rosa Lee," he said, "with the privilege to vote - to choose - we can change things, even put our own people in power.

Linda Williams Jackson

#27. All I was trying to do was get home from work.

Rosa Parks

#28. Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.

Rosa Luxemburg

#29. [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

Marian Wright Edelman

#30. President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.

Rosa DeLauro

#31. The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg

#32. Hey, come back to me.

Alex Rosa

#33. Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

#34. Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Rosa Parks

#35. You better get used to touchy-feely around here, sweetie

Alex Rosa

#36. Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

Markus Zusak

#37. Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

Andrew Aydin

#38. The Neo-Feudalism of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is reviving serfdom as the condition of the future. If you let it.

Rosa Koire

#39. I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot; I would that thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

Rosa Luxemburg

#40. Even I recognize that I'm not being a proper role model right now. But I need you to understand. As your mother, it's my duty to protect you from the evil intentions of whoever did this ... and I'll become a demon if I have to. That's all there is to it.

Ryukishi07

#41. The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.

Conan O'Brien

#42. My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

Justine Larbalestier

#43. 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

Rosa DeLauro

#44. Unconditional Love is a perpetual emotion machine. It inspires us to include others. The longer I am bathed in its radiance, the more I find myself looking at others with an open heart. I can look past their faults and love them. I can say, "I may not like the things you do, but I love you.

Rosa Marchisella

#45. Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens.

Jon Acuff

#46. The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isn't fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.
I fiddle with my hands, peering up at him again, and all I can think is, God, I wish he'd stop staring at me like that.

Alex Rosa

#47. Max, Hans, and Rosa I cannot account for, but I know that Liesel Meminger was thinking that if the bombs ever landed on Himmel Street, not only did Max have less chance of survival than everyone else, but he would die completely alone.

Markus Zusak

#48. But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

Charles Dickens

#49. There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

Rosa Parks

#50. I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

Emma Stone

#51. God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

Rosa Parks

#52. I did not get on the bus to get arrested I got on the bus to go home.

Rosa Parks

#53. Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Rosa Luxemburg

#54. Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in ... as you ride through life.

Richard Pryor

#55. I will always work for human rights for all people.

Rosa Parks

#56. It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Rosa Parks

#57. I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

Rosa DeLauro

#58. She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

Renata Adler

#59. Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.

John Fante

#60. Are women literal creatures? I have to admit this is not my forte.

Alex Rosa

#61. You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Rosa Parks

#62. The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

#63. Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom. Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

#64. I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

Rosa Parks

#65. you think I am going to give up now? I'm so close.

Alex Rosa

#66. Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.

Emily Arden

#67. I was thinking about how people prejudge other people. That's the same as prejudice, right?

Rosa Jordan

#68. True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

Rosa Campbell Praed

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

Douglas Brinkley

#70. Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

Rosa Parks

#71. I lived that year on top of a wooden tower in an area east of Santa Rosa known as the Valley of the Moon.

Frederick Weisel

#72. Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.

Alex Rosa

#73. All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Rosa Parks

#74. Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Rosa Luxemburg

#75. I half hoped he would be shirtless, but then wanted to smack myself at the ridiculous secret confession.

Alex Rosa

#76. If you don't eat, you fall down.

Rosa Rossi

#77. Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

Alex Rosa

#78. As they went out of the room Rosa turned to look at Tommy and had an impulse to go back, to get into bed with him and just lie there for a while feeling that deep longing, that sense of missing him desperately, that came over her whenever she held him sleeping in her arms.

Michael Chabon

#79. But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Rosa Bonheur

#80. In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.

Gary Weiss

#81. The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

Rosa DeLauro

#82. It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

Rosa Parks

#83. History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Rosa Luxemburg

#84. Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Rosa Parks

#85. Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

Sam Weller

#86. The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Rosa Luxemburg

#87. Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

Rosa Bonheur

#88. We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

Rosa Luxemburg

#89. Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter

Rosa Luxemburg

#90. Whereas Rosa's lips were full and lush, her mother's were thin and pinched in an expression that hinted at pain so long suppressed and hidden that in hiding from the world, the pain had become second nature.

Michael Rowe

#91. 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

#92. I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

Rosa Bonheur

#93. 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

#94. Order prevails in Berlin!" You foolish lackeys! Your "order" is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will "rise up again, clashing its weapons," and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!

Rosa Luxemburg

#95. Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every ... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

John Lewis

#96. Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

#97. The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is vice or property that makes him ugly. He is responsible for his own decadence, while the horse is only a slave.

Rosa Bonheur

#98. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Rosa Luxemburg

#99. It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

Rosa Parks

#100. Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

Rodrigo Rey Rosa

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