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.
ROSA PARKSThe bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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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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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn’t just free blacks but them, too.
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We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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One person can change the world.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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