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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Rosa Parks

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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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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Black Lives Matter Dignity Person Self Respect
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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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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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 believe there is only one race – the human race.
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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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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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Acceptance Injustice One Liner Protest
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 paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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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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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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