Black World Quotes by Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• All I was trying to do was get home from work.
• If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
• I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should…
• Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
• As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless…
• I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,…
• I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.
• I did not get on the bus to get arrested I got on the bus to go home.
• If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we…
• I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
• Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
• 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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