All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
ROSA PARKSWe didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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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 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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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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