I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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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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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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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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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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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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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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I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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