Rosa Parks Quotes

• Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

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

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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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• Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

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

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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.

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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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• Why do you all push us around?

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

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

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Rosa Parks (14)

Birth:	4th February, 1913
Death:	24th October, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist

About

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement".

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