Rosa Parks Quotes

If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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Action Behaviour Demonstrate Humble Peace Recognize Respect Trust
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
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
People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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Euality Freedom Mind Need People Prejudice Race Racism
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Business Dedication Home One Liner Try Work
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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Achievement Determination Freedom History Lesson
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
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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Concern Equality Freedom Justice People Person Prosperity
I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Consent Die Giving Ready Self Respect
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
Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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Believe Confidence God Inspirational Religious Step Trust
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 do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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Believe Hope Inspirational Life Optimism
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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Black Lives Matter Change Decide Human Prejudice Treatment
No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Business Entrepreneur Give Up Inspirational One Liner Tired
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
An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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Giving Opportunity
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Believe Business Human Motivational One Liner Race
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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Children Hope Meet Overcome Preparation Racism
There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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Direction Fall Feeling Opposite Step Time
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
Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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Community Dignity Emphasis Family Pride Racism
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Continue Deed Life Live Memories Work
As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
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Crime Done Human Man Need People Regard Togetherness Unemployment Work
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
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

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