(21 quotes found)
“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
“The Rosa Parks Story.”
Rosa Parks
“I was in the Santa Rosa Musician's Union. Get gigs, come out and play. Four or five guys who never played together show up and play dance music.”
Dan Hicks
“We have operators who have grown up in Santa Rosa, who have spent 30 or 40 years here. When somebody is confused and needs directions, they can give them - and they can pronounce the street names.”
Gaetan Tamo
“Santa Rosa was more pro-South and Petaluma was more pro-North. Many articles in the Sonoma Democrat (now the Press Democrat) during this time speak about preserving the 'white mans government,' and oppose African-Americans' right to vote. Petaluma was more progressive.”
Sean Carroll
“Rosa Parks was a brunet who was not ignored.”
Heather Arnet
“Levi wanted to come into Santa Rosa and keep the jersey. And he showed everyone that he was going to do it.”
Jackson Stewart
“I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,”
Joseph Lowery
“Rosa Parks is worldwide.”
John Conyers
“We applaud the efforts of Cindy Sheehan in Texas. We consider her the Rosa Parks of the new movement opposing the Iraq war.”
Rosemary Palmer
