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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.
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks
Age: 92 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 4
Died: 2005
Died: October 24
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Tuskegee
Alabama
Rosa Lee Louise McCauley Parks
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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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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I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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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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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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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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When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.
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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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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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