People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
ROSA PARKSPeople need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
ROSA PARKSMemories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
ROSA PARKSI see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
ROSA PARKSI don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
ROSA PARKSOur 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.
ROSA PARKSI 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.
ROSA PARKSI talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKSAn opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
ROSA PARKSThe bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKSVictory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
ROSA PARKSI want to be treated like a human being.
ROSA PARKSAll I was doing was trying to get home from work.
ROSA PARKSEveryone 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.
ROSA PARKSThere 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.
ROSA PARKSI think when you say you’re happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for.
ROSA PARKSI had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
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