I will always work for human rights for all people.
ROSA PARKSI talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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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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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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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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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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There is no future without education.
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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 was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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