I want to be treated like a human being.
ROSA PARKSThere is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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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 knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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Why do you all push us around?
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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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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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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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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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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 have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
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