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.
ROSA PARKSI paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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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.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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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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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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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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