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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Rosa Parks

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Business Dedication Home One Liner Try Work
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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Freedom People Person Positive Remember Want
When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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Action Change Freedom Inspirational Mind People Want
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
I want to be treated like a human being.
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Human One Liner Self Respect Treatment
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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Courtesy Kindness Respect Rule Treat
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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Believe Push Time
I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
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Decide Declutter Folk Hands Individual Paper
I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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Against Human Prejudice Race Racism Thinking
No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Business Entrepreneur Give Up Inspirational One Liner Tired
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Citizen Ignorance Neglect Tired Treatment
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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Black Lives Matter Freedom
I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Believe Business Human Motivational One Liner Race
I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Give Up History Ideas Try
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
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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Action Contradict Myself Person Truth

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

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