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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Why do you all push us around?Rosa Parks
He was the first, aside from my grandfather and Mr. Gus Vaughn, who was never actually afraid of white people, ... So many African Americans felt that you just had to be under Mr. Charlie's heel - that's what we called the white man, Mr. Charlie - and couldn't do anything to cross him. In other words, Parks believed in being a man and expected to be treated as a man.
Rosa Parks
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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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 knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
Rosa Parks
was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
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