If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
ROSA PARKSGod has always given me the strength to say what is right.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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One person can change the world.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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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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There is no future without education.
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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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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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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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