RIP Rosa Parks, 92
Posted by David on Monday, October 24, 2005 at 8:00 PM.
God bless. Enjoy that front-row seat on the bus ride to the happy place.
Rosa's always been personally important to me, as a symbol of the power for change ordinary people can have. Dr. King was already an accomplished minister when he took up the cause of civil rights. Ghandi was university-educated when he was thrown off a train. Rosa? Rosa was a woman who believed in dignity.
"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.- … No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
UPDATE: In her own words, Rosa Parks describes the event in an interview she gave for a Berkeley radio station in 1956.