black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Rosa Parks

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
ROSA PARKS

Business Dedication Hustle Stop Work Hard
I will always work for human rights for all people.
ROSA PARKS

Duty Human People Right Work
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.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Dignity Person Self Respect
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
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 PARKS

Happiness Life Need
I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
ROSA PARKS

Consent Die Giving Ready Self Respect
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
ROSA PARKS

Achievement Determination Freedom History Lesson
The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Change Decide Human Prejudice Treatment
I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Violence
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
ROSA PARKS

Afraid Business Change Deep Failure Inspirational Step Try
People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
ROSA PARKS

Euality Freedom Mind Need People Prejudice Race Racism
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.
ROSA PARKS

Decide Declutter Folk Hands Individual Paper
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.
ROSA PARKS

Courtesy Kindness Respect Rule Treat
I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
ROSA PARKS

Against Human Prejudice Race Racism Thinking
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
ROSA PARKS

Concern Equality Freedom Justice People Person Prosperity
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.
ROSA PARKS

Action Contradict Myself Person Truth

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rosa Parks Quotes