Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
ROSA PARKSWhites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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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.
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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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There is no future without education.
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I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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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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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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