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.
ROSA PARKSI don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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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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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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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 believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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