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 PARKSAs 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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One person can change the world.
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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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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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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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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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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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