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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

Rosa Parks

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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Healing Hurt Life Place Scars Try
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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Believe Push Time
My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Business Concern Dedication Home Work
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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Afraid Business Change Deep Failure Inspirational Step Try
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Citizen Ignorance Neglect Tired Treatment
Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Believe Black Lives Matter Business Capable Firm Leadership Organization
I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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Black Lives Matter Dignity Person Self Respect
As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Crime Work
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Business Dedication Home One Liner Try Work
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Continue Deed Life Live Memories Work
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.
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Ache Giving Heart Seat Tired Work
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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Direction Fall Feeling Opposite Step Time
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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Black Lives Matter Freedom
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Black Lives Matter Human Man Negro Talk Treatment
When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Black Lives Matter Encouragement Leadership Women
Why do you all push us around?
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Black Lives Matter

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