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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what mu...

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

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

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,...

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I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integr...

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I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...

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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and pro...

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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also fre...

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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free ...

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

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient f...

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

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

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not ...

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

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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 d...

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Rosa Parks

Activist

Born: 1913-02-04

Died: 2005-10-24

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". She is best remembered for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat so a white man could sit in the row.More