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
I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can't force them to think that way. - Rosa Parks
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so. - Rosa Parks
I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying. - Rosa Parks
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us. - Rosa Parks
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro. - Rosa Parks
In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside. - Rosa Parks
Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth. - 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
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner. - Rosa Parks
There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took one more step, someone would come along to join me. - Rosa Parks
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws. - Rosa Parks
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. - Rosa Parks
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
A woman could work day and night caring for her family, and the only time she's likely to hear a comment is if she stops doing it!
And I understand the feelings a Sales Director has when she has spent weeks of love and care training a new unit member only to have that person quit before she even starts.
Consider the price actors and actresses are willing to pay for recognition, that one chance in a thousand to 'make it to the top'.
For most women, the last bit of applause they received was when they graduated from high school or college.
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