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Rosa Parks is a 2013 bronze sculpture depicting the African-American civil rights activist of the same name, installed in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, as part of the collection of the Architect of the Capitol. The statue was sculpted by Eugene Daub and co-designed by Rob Firmin. It is the only statue in the Hall not linked with a state, and the first full-length statue of an African American in the Capitol.
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“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”
“We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.”
“I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.”
“From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh.”
“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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