If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
ROSA PARKSI want to be treated like a human being.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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