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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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There is work to do that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
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One person can change the world.
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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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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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 did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
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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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Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
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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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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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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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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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I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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