Each person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKSRacism 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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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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One person can change the world.
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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 want to be treated like a human being.
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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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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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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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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