My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
ROSA PARKSDifferences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Why do you all push us around?
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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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 talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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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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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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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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Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
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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.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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We will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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