Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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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I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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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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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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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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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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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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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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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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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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