I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence]. But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.
When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.
My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.
But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.
The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.
Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every. . . Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.
An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.
