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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

Rosa Parks

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
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 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
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Continue Deed Life Live Memories Work
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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Dedication Hustle Inspirational Matter Problem Success
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
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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Black Lives Matter Colour Facility Injustice
I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Violence
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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Inspirational Life Live One Liner Person Positive Role Model
One person can change the world.
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Business Change Entrepreneur Inspirational One Liner Person World
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
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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Action Black Lives Matter Cause Normal Trouble
I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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Change Energy Force Inspirational People Positive Young
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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Black Lives Matter Dignity Person Self Respect
Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship rights or privileges.
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Citizenship Difference Human Privilege Race Religion Right
I will always work for human rights for all people.
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Duty Human People Right Work

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