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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.

Rosa Parks

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Hurt Ignorance One Liner Tired Treatment
If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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Angry Finding Friendship Missing People Stay
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Business Confidence Fear Inspirational Right Success
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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Acceptance Injustice One Liner Protest
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 was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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Achievement Determination Freedom History Lesson
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
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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Believe Confidence God Inspirational Religious Step Trust
That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
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Allow Black Lives Matter Difference Servant Slave
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
Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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Community Dignity Emphasis Family Pride Racism
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
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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Alone Desire Feeling Freedom Individual
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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Dedication Hustle Inspirational Matter Problem Success
People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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Freedom Mind Need People Prejudice Racism
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

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