I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
ROSA PARKSYou cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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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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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.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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