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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.

Rosa Parks

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Business Dedication Home One Liner Try Work
No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Business Entrepreneur Give Up Inspirational One Liner Tired
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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Happiness Life Need
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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Fall Ground Inspirational Past Present Stand
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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Achievement Determination Freedom History Lesson
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
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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Beat Black Lives Matter Children Freedom Kill People Police Racism Time Young
When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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Country Forget History President Remember Woman
Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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Goals Harmony Live Love Mind Peace People Seek Thinking Togetherness
My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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Business Concern Dedication Home Work
An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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Giving Opportunity
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
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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Black Lives Matter Freedom
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Done Fear Women Empowerment
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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Direction Fall Feeling Opposite Step Time
I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.
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Decide Declutter Folk Hands Individual Paper

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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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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