There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
ROSA PARKSThere is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
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One person can change the world.
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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.
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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 time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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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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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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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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