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 would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
ROSA PARKSIt takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
ROSA PARKSWhy do you all push us around?
ROSA PARKSI would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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 PARKSWhatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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 PARKSGod has always given me the strength to say what is right.
ROSA PARKSThe bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKSI had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
ROSA PARKSI think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
ROSA PARKSEach person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKSWhat really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
ROSA PARKSIf you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
ROSA PARKSIt is better to protest than to accept injustice.
ROSA PARKSThere is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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