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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
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Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
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Tuskegee
Alabama
Rosa Lee Louise McCauley Parks
Rosa Louise McCauleyParks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
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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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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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 have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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One person can change the world.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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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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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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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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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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