I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
ROSA PARKSWe didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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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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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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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.
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