ext_6150 ([identity profile] gehayi.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] femgenficathon 2010-04-09 06:48 am (UTC)

83)People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. -- Rosa Parks (1913-2005), African-American civil rights activist.

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