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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.

Rosa Parks

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
If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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Angry Finding Friendship Missing People Stay
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
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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Black Lives Matter Change Decide Human Prejudice Treatment
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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Believe Hope Inspirational Life Optimism
I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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Black Lives Matter Violence
I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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Arrest Black Lives Matter Bus Home
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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Decide Declutter Folk Hands Individual Paper
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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Children Hope Meet Overcome Preparation Racism
I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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God Learning Strength Trust
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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Freedom People Person Positive Remember Want
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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Disappointment Hurt Madness Oppression Reason
I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Believe Business Human Motivational One Liner Race
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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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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Courtesy Kindness Respect Rule Treat
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Beginning Healing Oppression Process Time

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.

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