I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKSGod has always given me the strength to say what is right.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
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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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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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One person can change the world.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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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 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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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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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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