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I will always work for human rights for all people.

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 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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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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I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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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One person can change the world.
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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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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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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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The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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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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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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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
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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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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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