It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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 believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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There is no future without education.
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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 had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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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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