I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKSWhy do you all push us around?
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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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 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 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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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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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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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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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