The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
ROSA PARKSThere is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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 would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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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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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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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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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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There is no future without education.
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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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