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Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.

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
Dies
Dream
Without
People
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Dreams
Courage
Vision

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If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
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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 want to be treated like a human being.
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Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
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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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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.
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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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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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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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It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
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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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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
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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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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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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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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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