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.
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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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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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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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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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One person can change the world.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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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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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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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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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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