I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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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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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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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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