As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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There is no future without education.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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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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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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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
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