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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giv

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. – Rosa Parks

Other quotes by Rosa Parks

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

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Equality
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Rosa Parks
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I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear. – Rosa Parks

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Fear
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Rosa Parks
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Other Quotes from
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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. – Bill Frist

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Black History

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Black History

I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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Black History

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

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Black History

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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. – V. S. Naipaul

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Freedom rings where opinions clash. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK. – Roger Goodell

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Family

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Equality