Rosa Parks Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

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  Inspirational, Giving Up, Tired

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

• The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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  Courage, Struggle, Tired

  Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1948). “My Story”, Scholastic

• People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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  Giving Up, Tired, People

  Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1999). “Rosa Parks: my story”, Puffin

• People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

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  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

• I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Long Ago, Years, Knowing

• I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

  Rosa Parks

  Giving, Consent, Ready

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