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.
ROSA PARKSWhen 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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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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