I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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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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I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Why do you all push us around?
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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Racism 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.
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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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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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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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