The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKSGod has always given me the strength to say what is right.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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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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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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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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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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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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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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