I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
ROSA PARKSThe time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
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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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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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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There is no future without education.
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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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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
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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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Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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