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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

Rosa Parks

The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
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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Concern Equality Freedom Justice People Person Prosperity
If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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Angry Finding Friendship Missing People Stay
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
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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Healing Hurt Life Place Scars Try
God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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Giving God Right Strength
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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Civilization Exist Matter Right Survival
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Business Confidence Fear Inspirational Right Success
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
Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Believe Black Lives Matter Business Capable Firm Leadership Organization
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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Ache Giving Heart Seat Tired Work
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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Believe Push Time
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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Action Contradict Myself Person Truth
No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Business Entrepreneur Give Up Inspirational One Liner Tired
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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Direction Fall Feeling Opposite Step Time
I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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Against Human Prejudice Race Racism Thinking

As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

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