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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.

Rosa Parks

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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Happiness Life Need
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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Healing Hurt Life Place Scars Try
Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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Citizenship Difference Human Privilege Race Religion Right
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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Goals Harmony Live Love Mind Peace People Seek Thinking Togetherness
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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Concern Equality Freedom Justice People Person Prosperity
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Beginning Healing Oppression Process Time
When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Black Lives Matter Encouragement Leadership Women
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
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 will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
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Action Contradict Myself Person Truth
I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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Change Energy Force Inspirational People Positive Young
Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Hurt Ignorance One Liner Tired Treatment
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Diminish Done Fear Inspirational Learning Mind
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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Beat Black Lives Matter Children Freedom Kill People Police Racism Time Young
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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Dedication Hustle Inspirational Matter Problem Success
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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Afraid Business Change Deep Failure Inspirational Step Try

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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