My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
ROSA PARKSEveryone 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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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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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.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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