Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
ROSA PARKSI want to be treated like a human being.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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I 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.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Since 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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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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There is no future without education.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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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.
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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What 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.
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