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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.

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
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One person can change the world.
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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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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Why do you all push us around?
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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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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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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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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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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I want to be treated like a human being.
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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 believe there is only one race - the human race.
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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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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