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.
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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One person can change the world.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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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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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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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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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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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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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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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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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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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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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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