I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
ROSA PARKSThere 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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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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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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What 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.
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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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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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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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