You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
ROSA PARKSI 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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