I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKSI do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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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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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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 will always work for human rights for all people.
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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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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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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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There is no future without education.
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