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Rosa Parks: It Has All Been Said — So Let Us Ponder.

October 25th, 2005 by cooper

Rosa Parks:

There is nothing to say that hasn’t been said.

To be cou­ra­geous enough,
to res­pect one­self enough
to stand up and say
I don’t deserve this,
we don’t deserve this

To unk­no­wingly( or not) start a move­ment
which would, at least, be the begin­ning of the end.
To be willing to �go there� des­pite the risks

That is courage

And let us not for­get that she did this inten­tio­nally and with pur­pose. It did not just hap­pen. She is a hero.

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26 Responses to “Rosa Parks: It Has All Been Said — So Let Us Ponder.”

  1. I saw her obit this mor­ning on the news and wept.
    I am a proud gra­duate of one of the Brown v. Board high schools, inte­gra­ted because of the actions of peo­ple like Parks, King, Marshall, Evars, etc. Without her actions, I’m sure Ame­rica would still be on that high­way to Jim Crow hell.

  2. I saw her obit this mor­ning on the news and wept.
    I am a proud gra­duate of one of the Brown v. Board high schools, inte­gra­ted because of the actions of peo­ple like Parks, King, Marshall, Evars, etc. Without her actions, I’m sure Ame­rica would still be on that high­way to Jim Crow hell.

  3. MJ says:

    Sad day indeed.

  4. MJ says:

    Sad day indeed.

  5. Would that all who are wron­ged should show such resolve

  6. Would that all who are wron­ged should show such resolve

  7. jake says:

    unk­no­wingly ( or not) ?

    rest her soul and please if not too incon­ve­nient send us another one like her.

  8. jake says:

    unk­no­wingly ( or not) ?

    rest her soul and please if not too incon­ve­nient send us another one like her.

  9. Doug says:

    Well put, Alice. And amen.

  10. Doug says:

    Well put, Alice. And amen.

  11. Helen says:

    God Bless her. She lived a long life and will be remem­be­red well on this earth.
    Peace.….….…..

  12. Helen says:

    God Bless her. She lived a long life and will be remem­be­red well on this earth.
    Peace.….….…..

  13. john says:

    Will you do my funeral?

    short and to the point

    Karma = life for life, ninety two years of it.

  14. john says:

    Will you do my funeral?

    short and to the point

    Karma = life for life, ninety two years of it.

  15. weirsdo says:

    Living down here inc­rea­ses one’s res­pect for her. Not because of racism, since that’s everywhere, but because there is a lot of empha­sis on the idea that ever­yone should go along and get along rather than dis­rupt our appea­rance of being a big happy family by poin­ting out our dys­func­tions. Rosa Parks was up against that as well as the more obvious.

  16. weirsdo says:

    Living down here inc­rea­ses one’s res­pect for her. Not because of racism, since that’s everywhere, but because there is a lot of empha­sis on the idea that ever­yone should go along and get along rather than dis­rupt our appea­rance of being a big happy family by poin­ting out our dys­func­tions. Rosa Parks was up against that as well as the more obvious.

  17. finnegan says:

    She had cou­rage of a sort that seems mostly lost on most Ame­ri­cans. They pre­fer get­ting dres­sed up in flag-drag and mur­de­ring the world’s poor in the name of FREEDOM.

    Rosa Parks, RIP.

  18. finnegan says:

    She had cou­rage of a sort that seems mostly lost on most Ame­ri­cans. They pre­fer get­ting dres­sed up in flag-drag and mur­de­ring the world’s poor in the name of FREEDOM.

    Rosa Parks, RIP.

  19. Most peo­ple do not even really get the cou­rage of a lot of things that went on back then, they don’t think and they don’t listen.

  20. Most peo­ple do not even really get the cou­rage of a lot of things that went on back then, they don’t think and they don’t listen.