People need to free their minds of all racial prejudice.
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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There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still.
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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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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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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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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.
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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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There is no future without education.
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No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
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