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Why do you all push us around?

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Rosa Parks
Age: 92 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 4
Died: 2005
Died: October 24
Activist
Autobiographer
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Public Figure
Tuskegee
Alabama
Rosa Lee Louise McCauley Parks
Rosa Louise McCauleyParks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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There is a lack of interest in voting in the United States, and that troubles me. It is very necessary that people get registered, study the issues and be aware of the politics of our country. We will really be set back if people don't take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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I believe there is only one race - the human race.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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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One person can change the world.
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There is work to do that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.
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I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.
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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 did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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