My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
ROSA PARKSStand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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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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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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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 was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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There is no future without education.
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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 paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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