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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.

Rosa Parks

It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
ROSA PARKS

Inspirational Peace Person
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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Black Lives Matter Freedom
People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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Freedom Mind Need People Prejudice Racism
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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Action Black Lives Matter Cause Normal Trouble
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Business Dedication Home One Liner Try Work
I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Consent Die Giving Ready Self Respect
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Citizen Ignorance Neglect Tired Treatment
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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Civilization Exist Matter Right Survival
I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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Against Human Prejudice Race Racism Thinking
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Black Lives Matter Human Man Negro Talk Treatment
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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Beat Black Lives Matter Children Freedom Kill People Police Racism Time Young
My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Business Concern Dedication Home Work
Everyone 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.
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Goals Harmony Live Love Mind Peace People Seek Thinking Togetherness
There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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Direction Fall Feeling Opposite Step Time
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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Disappointment Hurt Madness Oppression Reason
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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Diminish Done Fear Inspirational Learning Mind

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