All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
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He said Parks' death also made him reflect on the many other African-Americans who had similarly refused to abide by the rules of segregation, but whose names are largely lost to history. I kept asking myself today, what made this different, ... I think what made it different was people were willing to stand behind her.Rosa Parks
I heard that she sat down on the bus. That is all that I know. They don't tell you too much about this stuff at school. They talk mostly about military tactics and how wars were won.
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Her act of civil disobedience, for which she was willing to pay the price to end the rein of terror, got her arrested.
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mother of the civil rights movement.
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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 knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
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