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.
ROSA PARKSThere 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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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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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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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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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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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
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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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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