I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
ROSA PARKSI 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
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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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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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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn’t just free blacks but them, too.
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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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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