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Quote by Rosa Parks

“It is better to protest than to accept injustice.”

Quote by Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist born on February 4, 1913, and died on October 24, 2005. She is best known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, an act that sparked the civil rights movement in the United States. more

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