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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
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Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
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Tuskegee
Alabama
Rosa Lee Louise McCauley Parks
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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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One person can change the world.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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