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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.

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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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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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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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Why do you all push us around?
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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 knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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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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One person can change the world.
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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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 would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity 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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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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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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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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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