I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKSAs long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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 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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white 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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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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One person can change the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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