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.
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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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I believe that we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
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Why do you all push us around?
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It was just a matter of survival... of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl and hearing the Ku Klux Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.
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