“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this di...” — Rosa Parks Quote

“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.”

“You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.”

“Stand for something, or you will fall for anything. Todays mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground”

“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”

“For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.”