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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Rosa Parks

My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Business Concern Dedication Home Work
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
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
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
Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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Citizenship Difference Human Privilege Race Religion Right
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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Decide Declutter Folk Hands Individual Paper
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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Country Forget History President Remember Woman
When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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Action Change Freedom Inspirational Mind People Want
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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Believe Push Time
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Business Confidence Fear Inspirational Right Success
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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Action Black Lives Matter Cause Normal Trouble
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
People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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Freedom Mind Need People Prejudice Racism
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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Inspirational Life Live One Liner Person Positive Role Model
What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
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Dedication Hustle Inspirational Matter Problem Success
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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Civilization Exist Matter Right Survival

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

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