There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
ROSA PARKSThe bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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 would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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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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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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