As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
ROSA PARKS
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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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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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Each person must live their life as a model for 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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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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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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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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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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