The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKSThat was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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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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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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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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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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