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Rosa Parks

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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Change Energy Force Inspirational People Positive Young
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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Country Forget History President Remember Woman
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
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Ache Giving Heart Seat Tired Work
As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Crime Work
It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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Inspirational Peace Person
God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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Giving God Right Strength
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Black Lives Matter Human Man Negro Talk Treatment
I will always work for human rights for all people.
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Duty Human People Right Work
Why do you all push us around?
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Black Lives Matter
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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Action Black Lives Matter Cause Normal Trouble
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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Allow Black Lives Matter Difference Servant Slave
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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Decide Declutter Folk Hands Individual Paper
I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
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Action Contradict Myself Person Truth
I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Give Up History Ideas Try
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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Achievement Determination Freedom History Lesson

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