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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Rosa Parks

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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Alone Desire Feeling Freedom Individual
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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Dedication Hustle Inspirational Matter Problem Success
Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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Community Dignity Emphasis Family Pride Racism
Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
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Beat Black Lives Matter Children Freedom Kill People Police Racism Time Young
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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Done Freedom People Restriction Tactics Work
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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Civilization Exist Matter Right Survival
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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Believe Hope Inspirational Life Optimism
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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Believe Confidence God Inspirational Religious Step Trust
I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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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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