Some of her early memories were of white people who treated blacks kindly, particularly a Yankee soldier who said she was cute and treated me like I was just another little girl, not a little black girl, ... Rosa Parks My Story.
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When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.Rosa Parks
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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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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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
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mother of the civil rights movement.
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Why do you all push us around?
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