Why do you all push us around?
ROSA PARKSI’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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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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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 people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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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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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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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 believe there is only one race – the human race.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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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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