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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

Rosa Parks

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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Beat Black Lives Matter Children Freedom Kill People Police Racism Time Young
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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Black Lives Matter Brotherhood Equality Feeling Hatred Life Live Love Prejudice Teaching
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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Black Lives Matter Colour Facility Injustice
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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Acceptance Injustice One Liner Protest
I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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Change Energy Force Inspirational People Positive Young
Why do you all push us around?
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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Alone Desire Feeling Freedom Individual
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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Done Freedom People Restriction Tactics Work
There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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Black Lives Matter Dignity Person Self Respect
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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Goals Harmony Live Love Mind Peace People Seek Thinking Togetherness
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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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 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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I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
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Ache Giving Heart Seat Tired Work
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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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

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