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.
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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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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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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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Why do you all push us around?
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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 all racial prejudice.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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 was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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