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“I felt that it was not right to be deprived of freedom when we were living in the Home of the Brave and Land of the Free.”

Source: Interview with the Academy of Achievement, 2 June 1995

Context In the same Academy of Achievement interview, Parks reflected on living under segregation in Alabama and the gap she saw with America's professed ideals of freedom.

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