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.
ROSA PARKSI don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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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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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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