If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
ROSA PARKSRacial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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I 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.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
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One person can change the world.
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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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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Each person must live their life as a model for 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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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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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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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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There is no future without education.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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