Each person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKSThat was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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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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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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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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