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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

Rosa Parks

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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Believe Control Faith Inspirational Power Stand
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 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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Black Lives Matter Dignity Person Self Respect
Why do you all push us around?
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Black Lives Matter
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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Candidate Citizen Concern Government Learning People Time Vote
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Beginning Healing Oppression Process Time
It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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Inspirational Peace Person
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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Crime Done Human Man Need People Regard Togetherness Unemployment Work
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
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
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
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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Believe Hope Inspirational Life Optimism
I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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Arrest Black Lives Matter Bus Home
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
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

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