It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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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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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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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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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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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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