God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
ROSA PARKSMy only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
More Rosa Parks Quotes
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.
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As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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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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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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Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
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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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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.
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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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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
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I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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