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I believe there is only one race - the human race.
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks
Age: 92 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 4
Died: 2005
Died: October 24
Activist
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Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
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Tuskegee
Alabama
Rosa Lee Louise McCauley Parks
Rosa Louise McCauleyParks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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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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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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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
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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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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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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 time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.
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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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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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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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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 knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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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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