I would like to be remembered ...

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
 Rosa Parks

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

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
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
 Rosa Parks
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
 Rosa Parks
I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.
 Rosa Parks
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
 Rosa Parks