Rosa Parks Quotes

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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.

  Rosa Parks

  Trying, Firsts, Steps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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  Motivational, Change, Black History

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  I believe there is only one race - the human race.

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  Believe, Race, Humans

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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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  Matter, Problem, Keep Going

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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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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  Inspirational, Fall, Nuts

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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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  Love, Dream, Courage

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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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  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

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• One person can change the world.

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  World, Changing The World, Persons

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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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  Kindness, Want, Golden

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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, Tired, People

  Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1999). “Rosa Parks: my story”, Puffin

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

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  Dream, People, Vision

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• It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

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  Peace, Persons

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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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  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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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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  Long, People, Being Free

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

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  Justice, Injustice, Accepting

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• I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

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  Freedom, People, Would Be

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• There is no future without education.

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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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  War, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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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

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

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  Real, People, Energy

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• Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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  Life, Morning, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Long Ago, Years, Knowing

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• I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

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  Inspirational, Giving Up, Tired

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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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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  Teaching, Thinking, People

  Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1948). “My Story”, Scholastic

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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.

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  Growing Up, Believe, People

  "The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here". Book by David Friend, 1991.

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