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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

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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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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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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I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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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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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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I believe there is only one race - the human race.
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Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
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One person can change the world.
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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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We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.
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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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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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