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.
ROSA PARKSPeople need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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 talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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Why do you all push us around?
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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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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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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