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.
ROSA PARKSIf I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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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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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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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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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
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