I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKSWithout vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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.
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Why do you all push us around?
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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