I want to be treated like a human being.
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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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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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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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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All I was doing was trying to get home from 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 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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There is no future without education.
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I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race.
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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