I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
ROSA PARKSIt takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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 was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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One person can change the world.
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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 do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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