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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.

~Rosa Parks

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

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

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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.

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

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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

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

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: February 4th, 1913

Died: October 24th, 2005

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