If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
ROSA PARKSOur mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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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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I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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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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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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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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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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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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