Quotes by Rosa Parks - Page 2

Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step
Rosa Parks / Activist
Believer
Next Steps
Strong
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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.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Equality
Children
Hopefully
Powerful
Racism
Overcome
Still
Meet
Prepare
Shall
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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.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Courage
Inspirational
Inspiring
Journey
Knowledge
Learning
Positive
Women
Fear
Sports
Done
Made
Mind
Years
Does
Away
Diminishes
Must
Over
Learned
Up
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People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
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Giving Up
People
Tired
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I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Change
Heart
Tired
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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?
Rosa Parks / Activist
Powerful
Revolution
Victory
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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Believe
Growing Up
People
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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 / Activist
Keep Going
Matter
Problem
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As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Color
Mistreated
Remember
Life Remember People
Skin
Back
Could
Wrong
Far
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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.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Citizens
Humans
Rights
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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.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Kindness
Golden
Want
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks / Activist
People
Tired
Because
Physically
Always
Only
True
Seat
Say
Give
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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Demand
Made
Obeying
Spending
Tired
Quite
Full
Driver
Working
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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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Quilts
Determination
Night
Winter
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There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Fall
Opposites
Steps
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I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
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Feet
Hurt
Lynching
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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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Christian
Humble
Peaceful
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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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Men
War
Inhumanity To Man
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Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Birth
Crow
Jim Crow
Millions
States
United
United States
Walks
Life Done World
Criminal
Life Look World
Jim
Let Us
Tightrope
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At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Arrested
Ideas
No Idea
People
Significant
Time Day People
Idea
Joined
Masses
The Only Thing
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I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Persons
Way
Whole
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The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential. I set examples by the way I lead my life.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Institute
Parks
Race
Rosa
Teach
Life People My Life
Accepts
Discriminate
Set
Examples
Life My Life People
Lead
Raymond
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I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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Black
Choices
White
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Accepting
Crow
Healing
Healing Process
Horrible
Indifference
Jim Crow
Oppression
Process
Restriction
Wounds
Attempted
Begins
Cut
Deeply
Set
False
Jim
Pattern
Soothe
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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Bus
Crowded
Passengers
Pay
White
Custom
Door
Enter
Entrance
Fare
Front
Occupying
Rear
Refused
Start
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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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Girl
Night
Sleep
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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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Being Free
Ease
White
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I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can't force them to think that way.
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Force
Human Beings
Race
Treated
Against
Change People Way
Fairly
Beings
Prejudiced
Themselves
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I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.
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Courage
Dream
Love
Smile
Inspiration
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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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Children
Elderly
Long
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I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.
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Equality
Bus
Convenience
Integrating
Plenty
Segregation
Benefit
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People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race. It would be a good thing if all people were treated equally and justly and not be discriminated against because of race or religion or anything that makes them different from others.
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Believe
People
Race
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You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Being Human
Clever
Comfort
Convenient
Denied
Deprived
Equal
Existence
Lifetime
Occupation
Transportation
Well Being
Accept
Life Home Man
Accommodation
Spend
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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. 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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Knowing
Long Ago
Years
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In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Easy
Montgomery
Normal
Rational
Sitting
Waiting
White
Inside
Men Women Waiting
Stand
Mentally
Airport
Counter
Colored
Facilities
Women Men White
Women Men Waiting
Instead
Ladies
Room
Outside
Remain
Served
Ticket
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I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.
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Teacher
Different Ages
Taught
Teacher Mother Me
Mother Me Born
Ages
Allowed
Anywhere
Attended
Sixth
Grade
Young Child
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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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Grandmother
Prayer
Sunday
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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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Country
Issues
People
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I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.
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People
Teaching
Thinking
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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, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
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Positive
Pain
Thinking
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People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.
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Children
Giving Up
Hurt
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I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Opportunity
Jail
Long
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