To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
ROSA PARKSBlack women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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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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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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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 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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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