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.
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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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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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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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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 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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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 don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Why do you all push us around?
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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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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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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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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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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We will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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