Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn’t just free blacks but them, too.
ROSA PARKSEach person must live their life as a model for others.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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One person can change the world.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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