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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.

Rosa Parks

I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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Black Lives Matter Violence
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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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Action Contradict Myself Person Truth
I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Consent Die Giving Ready Self Respect
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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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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Goals Harmony Live Love Mind Peace People Seek Thinking Togetherness
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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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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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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I 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.
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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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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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