I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.
ROSA PARKSWhen people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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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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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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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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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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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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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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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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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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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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