Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
ROSA PARKSPeople need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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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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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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Our 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.
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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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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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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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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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