You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
ROSA PARKSI had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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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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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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