All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
ROSA PARKSI was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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There is no future without education.
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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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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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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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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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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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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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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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