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

Rosa Parks

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.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Facility Injustice
We 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.
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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
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Diminish Done Fear Inspirational Learning Mind
As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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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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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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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.
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Black Lives Matter Brotherhood Equality Feeling Hatred Life Live Love Prejudice Teaching
I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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God Learning Strength Trust
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
People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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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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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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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

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