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.
ROSA PARKSAll I was doing was trying to get home from work.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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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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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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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.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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