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- I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- Each person must live their life as a model for others.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Twilight of the Idols, 1888
- Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
- Bill Clinton (1946 - ), at Rosa Park's funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
- Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.
- Jennifer Granholm, Michigan Governor at Rosa Park's funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
- When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, September 29, 2005
- Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-06-05
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