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I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

Rosa Parks

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Black Lives Matter Human Man Negro Talk Treatment
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
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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Acceptance Injustice One Liner Protest
I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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Arrest Black Lives Matter Bus Home
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
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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Action Contradict Myself Person Truth
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
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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Country Forget History President Remember Woman
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Citizen Ignorance Neglect Tired Treatment
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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Believe Control Faith Inspirational Power Stand
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
Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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Courage Die Dreamss Freedom Inspirational Peace People Vision
I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Believe Business Human Motivational One Liner Race
I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Consent Die Giving Ready Self Respect
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Continue Deed Life Live Memories Work
My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Business Concern Dedication Home Work

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

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I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

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