My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
ROSA PARKSI have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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There is no future without education.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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