I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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 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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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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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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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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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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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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
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