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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.

Rosa Parks

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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Healing Hurt Life Place Scars Try
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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Country Forget History President Remember Woman
As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Crime Work
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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Fall Ground Inspirational Past Present Stand
I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
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Decide Declutter Folk Hands Individual Paper
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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Courtesy Kindness Respect Rule Treat
Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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Courage Die Dreamss Freedom Inspirational Peace People Vision
That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
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Allow Black Lives Matter Difference Servant Slave
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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Civilization Exist Matter Right Survival
There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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Direction Fall Feeling Opposite Step Time
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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Freedom People Person Positive Remember Want
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
When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Black Lives Matter Encouragement Leadership Women
I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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Black Lives Matter Violence
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
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

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