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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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There is a lack of interest in voting in the United States, and that troubles me. It is very necessary that people get registered, study the issues and be aware of the politics of our country. We will really be set back if people don't take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.
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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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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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Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
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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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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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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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I believe there is only one race - the human race.
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
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I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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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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One person can change the world.
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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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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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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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