My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
ROSA PARKSAll I was doing was trying to get home from work.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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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 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 paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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 racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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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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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn’t just free blacks but them, too.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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