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Most of all, I want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted others to be free.

Rosa Parks

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

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As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

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