Each person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKSMemories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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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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There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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Why do you all push us around?
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We will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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One person can change the world.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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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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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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There is no future without education.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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That 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.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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