We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
ROSA PARKSI see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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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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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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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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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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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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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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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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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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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