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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Rosa Parks

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Hurt Ignorance One Liner Tired Treatment
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
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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Ache Giving Heart Seat Tired Work
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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Afraid Business Change Deep Failure Inspirational Step Try
Why do you all push us around?
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Black Lives Matter
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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Action Contradict Myself Person Truth
An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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Giving Opportunity
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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Black Lives Matter Dignity Person Self Respect
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Black Lives Matter Human Man Negro Talk Treatment
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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Acceptance Injustice One Liner Protest
Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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Citizenship Difference Human Privilege Race Religion Right
There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Facility Injustice
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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Happiness Life Need
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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Believe Push Time
I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Believe Business Human Motivational One Liner Race
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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Alone Desire Feeling Freedom Individual

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