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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.

  Rosa Parks

  Prayer, Sunday, Grandmother

  "Quiet Strength: the Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation,". Book by Gregory J. Reed and Rosa Parks, 1994.

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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.

  Rosa Parks

  Positive, Pain, Thinking

  "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, October 31, 2005.

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• Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

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  Freedom, Desire, Way

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• The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.

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  "Rosa Parks at 100: a great American rebel for racial justice" by Amy Goodman, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

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  Pride, Self, Community

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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.

  Rosa Parks

  Girl, Sleep, Night

  "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement, October 31, 2005.

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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.

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  Change, Tired, Heart

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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.

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  Tired, Demand, Made

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• I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.

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  Moving, Emmett Till, Bus

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• When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

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  Black, Roles, Today

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

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  Inspirational, Tired, African American

  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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• 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

  Fall, Opposites, Steps

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• I will always work for human rights for all people.

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  Rights, People, Human Rights

  Rosa Parks' Remarks at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. October 16, 1995.

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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.

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  Ideas, People, Significant

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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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  Home, African American, Bus

  "The Torchbearer Rosa Parks" by Rita Dove, content.time.com. June 14, 1999.

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• My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

  Rosa Parks

  Hard Work, Home, Political

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• An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.

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  Opportunity, Given

  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'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.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Choices, Black

  Speech by Chris Dodd. Congressional Record (Bound Volumes), Part 11, July 20, 2006.

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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.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Long, Get Up

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• Why do you all push us around?

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

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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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  Rights, Citizens, Humans

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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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  Bus, Mistreated, Particular

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• All I was trying to do was get home from work.

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  Home, Justice, Diversity

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• Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

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  Sitting, May, Bus

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• I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

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  Giving, Consent, Ready

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