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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.

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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One person can change the world.
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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 people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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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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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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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