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Somehow, we had to change the laws. And we had to get
enough white people on our side to be able to succeed.
I had no idea when I refused to give up my seat on that
Montgomery bus that my small action would help put an end
to the segregation laws in the South. I only knew that I was
tired of being pushed around. I was a regular person, just
as good as anybody else. There had been a few times in my
life when I had been treated by white people like a regular
person, so I knew what it felt like. It was time that other
white people started treating me that way.

Source: Parks, Rosa and Haskings, Jim. Rosa Parks: My Story.
United States of America: Penguin Group, 1992. pp. 1-2.

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