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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

Rosa Parks

The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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Action Behaviour Demonstrate Humble Peace Recognize Respect Trust
As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Crime Work
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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Allow Black Lives Matter Difference Servant Slave
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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Dedication Hustle Inspirational Matter Problem Success
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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Disappointment Hurt Madness Oppression Reason
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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Acceptance Injustice One Liner Protest
I will always work for human rights for all people.
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Duty Human People Right Work
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 see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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Change Energy Force Inspirational People Positive Young
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Beginning Healing Oppression Process Time
I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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Black Lives Matter Violence
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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Direction Fall Feeling Opposite Step Time
Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Hurt Ignorance One Liner Tired Treatment
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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Alone Desire Feeling Freedom Individual
As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
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Crime Done Human Man Need People Regard Togetherness Unemployment Work

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

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