I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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One person can change the world.
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When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
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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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There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
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That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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 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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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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