I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
ROSA PARKSThere 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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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One person can change the world.
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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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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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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 knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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As 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.
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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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