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 only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
ROSA PARKSI believe there is only one race – the human race.
ROSA PARKSOne person can change the world.
ROSA PARKSYou cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
ROSA PARKSI 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.
ROSA PARKSEveryone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
ROSA PARKSI want to be treated like a human being.
ROSA PARKSI 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.
ROSA PARKSI will always work for human rights for all people.
ROSA PARKSI do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKSI would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
ROSA PARKSOur freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
ROSA PARKSI knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKSI don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
ROSA PARKSI had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
ROSA PARKSI see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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