The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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 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 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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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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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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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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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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One person can change the world.
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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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