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.
ROSA PARKSThere is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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We will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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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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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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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 would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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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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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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 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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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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