I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
ROSA PARKSEach person must live their life as a model for others.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Why do you all push us around?
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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