I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
ROSA PARKSI 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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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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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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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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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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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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn’t just free blacks but them, too.
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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 talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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