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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

Rosa Parks

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
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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Freedom People Person Positive Remember Want
I believe there is only one race – the human race.
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Believe Business Human Motivational One Liner Race
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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Healing Hurt Life Place Scars Try
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 is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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Business Dedication Hustle Stop Work Hard
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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Believe Earth Enjoyment Freedom Grow Up Place Planet World
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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Believe Hope Inspirational Life Optimism
The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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Believe Push Time
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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Civilization Exist Matter Right Survival
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
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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Done Freedom People Restriction Tactics Work
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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Inspirational Peace Person
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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Beginning Healing Oppression Process Time

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

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