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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 will always work for human rights 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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
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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 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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I believe there is only one race - the human race.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
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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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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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The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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