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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.

Rosa Parks

I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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Black Lives Matter Violence
I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Mind Move On Step
Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
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Courtesy Kindness Respect Rule Treat
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Children Freedom Stand
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 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
Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Hurt Ignorance One Liner Tired Treatment
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Beginning Healing Oppression Process Time
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
ROSA PARKS

Believe Hope Inspirational Life Optimism
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.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Freedom
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
ROSA PARKS

Achievement Determination Freedom History Lesson
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
ROSA PARKS

Black Lives Matter Bus Injustice Realize World
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 was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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Consent Die Giving Ready Self Respect
You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
ROSA PARKS

Believe Control Faith Inspirational Power Stand
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.
ROSA PARKS

Crime Done Human Man Need People Regard Togetherness Unemployment Work

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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