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You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
— Rosa Parks
Tags: home, you, man, life

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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.
— Rosa Parks
Tags: always, true, tired, people
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
— Rosa Parks
Tags: everything, white, know, man
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.
— Rosa Parks
Tags: just, place, hurt, you
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
Tags: equality, overcome, meet, children, racism
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
— Rosa Parks
Tags: model, must, person, others, live, life
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