"I had given up my seat before, but……" — Rosa Parks
"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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63 Quotes by Rosa Parks
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All I was trying to do was get home from work.
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If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.
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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…
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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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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to…
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I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person…
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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…
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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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If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate…
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a…
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More Ache Quotes
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What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to…
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As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning…
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and…
— Maya Angelou
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time…
— Wendell Berry
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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or…
— Gordie Howe
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Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of…
— William Shakespeare
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Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in…
— Khalil Gibran
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