Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
ROSA PARKSWhen people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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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 was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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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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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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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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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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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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