Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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Rosa Parks
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About Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
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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.
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.
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.