I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
ROSA PARKSI have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
ROSA PARKSTo bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
ROSA PARKSWe will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
ROSA PARKSYou must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
ROSA PARKSThere is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
ROSA PARKSYou cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
ROSA PARKSIt takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
ROSA PARKSWhen people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
ROSA PARKSThere 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.
ROSA PARKSI will always work for human rights for all people.
ROSA PARKSThe only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
ROSA PARKSI’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKSI paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
ROSA PARKSNothing 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.
ROSA PARKSBlack women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
ROSA PARKSThe bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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