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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.

Rosa Parks

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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
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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Oaks
Today
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Anything
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Ground
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What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
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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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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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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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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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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 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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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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 knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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