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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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
Rosa Louise McCauleyParks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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One person can change the world.
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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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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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 did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
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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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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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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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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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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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There is work to do that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
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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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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