The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
ROSA PARKSBlack women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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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.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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We will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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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 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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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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