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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
- Rosa Parks
#Acting
#Doing
#Human
#Normal
#Trouble
As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.
- Rosa Parks
#Life
#People
#Remember
#Skin
#Way
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.
- Rosa Parks
#Bus
#Equality
#Never
#Person
#White
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
- Rosa Parks
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#Free
#Others
#Way
#Whatever
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.
- Rosa Parks
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#Been
#Hurt
#Just
#Place
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
- Rosa Parks
#Concern
#Day
#Hard
#Home
#Work
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
- Rosa Parks
#Home
#Life
#Man
#Well-Being
#White
Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
- Rosa Parks
#Birth
#Done
#Life
#Look
#World
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
- Rosa Parks
#Being
#Citizen
#Like
#Tired
#Treated
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.
- Rosa Parks
#Day
#Like
#People
#Time
#Turn
God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
- Rosa Parks
#Always
#God
#Me
#Right
#Strength
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
- Rosa Parks
#Doing
#Get
#Home
#Trying
#Work
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
- Rosa Parks
#Always
#Giving
#People
#Tired
#True
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
- Rosa Parks
#Disappointment
#Madness
#Oppression
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
- Rosa Parks
#Life
#Live
#Model
#Others
#Person
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
- Rosa Parks
#Continue
#Inspirational
#Memories
#Will
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
- Rosa Parks
#Free
#Freedom
#Like
#People
#Person
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.
- Rosa Parks
#Done
#Fear
#I Have Learned
#Mind
#Up
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.
- Rosa Parks
#Children
#Equality
#Meet
#Overcome
#Us
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