Quote by Rosa Parks: “I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”

Indecision and hesitation are where fear lives and grows. Once you commit fully to a course of action — once your mind is truly made up — a kind of clarity takes over that makes the fear shrink. Commitment is a form of courage.

Parks made her famous act of resistance on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, at a time when Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation across the American South. Her action was not spontaneous — she had been trained at the Highlander Folk School and was a deliberate participant in the civil rights movement's strategy.

American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in December 1955 became a defining act of the civil rights movement. She worked for decades with the NAACP and is often credited as a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.