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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.

Rosa Parks

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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One person can change the world.
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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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The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength.
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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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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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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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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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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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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.

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My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.

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