Why do you all push us around?
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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I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
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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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There is no future without education.
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Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Everyone 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.
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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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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons.
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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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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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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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One person can change the world.
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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.
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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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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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