If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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One person can change the world.
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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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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