God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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 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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I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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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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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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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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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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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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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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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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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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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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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