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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 do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKS

Believe Hope Inspirational Life Optimism
As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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Done Freedom People Restriction Tactics Work
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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Believe Earth Enjoyment Freedom Grow Up Place Planet World
That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
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Allow Black Lives Matter Difference Servant Slave
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
There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Facility Injustice
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Citizen Ignorance Neglect Tired Treatment
When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Black Lives Matter Encouragement Leadership Women
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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Black Lives Matter Brotherhood Equality Feeling Hatred Life Live Love Prejudice Teaching
I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Consent Die Giving Ready Self Respect
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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Black Lives Matter Human Man Negro Talk Treatment
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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Achievement Determination Freedom History Lesson
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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Believe Control Faith Inspirational Power Stand
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
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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Country Forget History President Remember Woman

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