Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
ROSA PARKSOur 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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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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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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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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Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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 was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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