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“We had to take a stand to at least let it be known that we want to be free regardless of the conditions under which we were living.”

Source: Interview for Eyes on the Prize, 14 November 1985

Context Interviewed for the PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize, Parks looked back on her 1955 arrest and why Black residents of Montgomery chose to resist bus segregation.

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Rosa ParksUnited States · 1913–2005
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