That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
ROSA PARKSPeople need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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.
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There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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There is no future without education.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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