You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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There is no future without education.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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That 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.
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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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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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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 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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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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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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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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 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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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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 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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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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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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