Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
ROSA PARKSI want to be treated like a human being.
ROSA PARKSI would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
ROSA PARKSI was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
ROSA PARKSThere 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.
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 PARKSWe didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
ROSA PARKSI learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
ROSA PARKSPeople need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
ROSA PARKSKnowing what must be done does away with fear.
ROSA PARKSI 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.
ROSA PARKSI do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKSThere is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
ROSA PARKSTo bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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 PARKSI don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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 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.
ROSA PARKSI talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKSI believe there is only one race – the human race.
ROSA PARKSIf I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
ROSA PARKSAs long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
ROSA PARKSRacism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
ROSA PARKSMy only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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.
ROSA PARKSI knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKSSince I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
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