Rosa Race Quotes

If there was ever a time to stand up to racial injustice, that would be 1955. If there was ever a place it was Montgomery, Alabama. Racial inequality was particularly prevalent here, and many people (including Parks) had had about enough of that.

This sounds like a pretty modest dream. Who cares about being able to rest on a bench, really? But because of what we know about Parks's refusal to get up from her seat on the bus, we know that this dream is representative of a bigger dream for racial equality.

In a time of racial crisis, doing nothing doesn't seem like the most admirable thing to do, but Dove is just toying with us a bit. She means not giving up her seat was the act of protest.