When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
ROSA PARKSI paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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 think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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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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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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