How did Rosa Parks show respect to other people?

Question

including herself,blacks,and whites

Answer 1

By fighting for *everybody's* civil rights. Or to paraphrase John Donne : "any man's discrimination diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind".

"During a 1956 radio interview with Sydney Rogers in West Oakland several months after her arrest, when asked why she had decided not to vacate her bus seat, Parks said, "I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen of Montgomery, Alabama.""

"She also detailed her motivation in her autobiography, "My Story" :

“ 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."

"In Montgomery, the first four rows of bus seats were reserved for white people. Buses had "colored" sections for black people—who made up more than 75 % of the bus system's riders—generally in the rear of the bus. These sections were not fixed in size, but were determined by the placement of a movable sign. Black people also could sit in the middle rows, until the white section was full. Then they had to move to seats in the rear, stand, or, if there was no room, leave the bus. Black people were not allowed to sit across the aisle from white people. The driver also could move the "colored" section sign, or remove it altogether. If white people were already sitting in the front, black people could board to pay the fare, but then had to disembark and reenter through the rear door. There were times when the bus departed before the black customers who had paid made it to the back entrance."

"Montgomery Bus Boycott" in "Rosa Parks", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#Montgomery_Bus_Boycott

"Montgomery Bus Boycott", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott

Answer 2

She had gobs of self respect, but other people? She became famous because she told someone to take a flying leap.