Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
ROSA PARKSNo, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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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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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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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 want to be treated like a human being.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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