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.
ROSA PARKSI don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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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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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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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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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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 was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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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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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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