Why do you all push us around?
ROSA PARKSTo bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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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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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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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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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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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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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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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