It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
ROSA PARKSMany 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.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.
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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.
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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I 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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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 believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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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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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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