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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.

Rosa Parks

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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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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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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We will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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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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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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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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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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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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 mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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 see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.

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