I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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 was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
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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’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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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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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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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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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.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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