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.
ROSA PARKSWhat really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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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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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
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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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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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