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“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Source: Rosa Parks: My Story (1992), p. 116
Context In her autobiography, written with Jim Haskins, Parks rejected the popular story that she kept her seat on 1 December 1955 because she was physically tired after work.
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