I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKSI would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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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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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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