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.
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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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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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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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 paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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There is no future without education.
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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 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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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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