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I want to be treated like a human being.

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
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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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Why do you all push us around?
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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 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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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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I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.
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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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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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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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I will always work for human rights for all people.
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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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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
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Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
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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 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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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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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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