All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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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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I think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Everyone 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.
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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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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
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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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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn’t just free blacks but them, too.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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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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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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One person can change the world.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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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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