There are very few people who can say that their actions and conduct changed the face of the nation, and Rosa Parks is one of those individuals. Where would we be as a country without her? Too many times, we cast the title of hero on those who are undeserving. But in Rosa Parks, I feel it can be said that she was truly a rare American hero. As a nation, we owe her a debt that can never be repaid. May God bless her soul and may she rest in peace. May she serve as an inspiration to us all and remind us that right will always defeat might.
"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. Each person must live their life as a model for others."-Rosa Parks
Absolutely, MD! Well said!
Posted by: Queen of Ass | October 25, 2005 at 09:43 AM
Call me an ignorant ass but I didn't even know she was still alive!
Posted by: Stephen | October 25, 2005 at 10:09 AM
I'm very saddened by the loss of this heroic woman. She was certainly a model for me.
Posted by: landismom | October 25, 2005 at 10:10 AM
You're right, MD. There are too few Americans worth of being called a hero. Rosa Parks certainly fits the bill. We should all mourn her passing.
Posted by: Brent | October 25, 2005 at 10:19 AM
Despite the deliberate staging of her protest, I think we need to remember the courage for her to stand up for what she believed in. She not only changed the face of the civil rights movement, she changed what it meant to be a Southerner, an American and a woman. God bless her.
Posted by: Ryan | October 25, 2005 at 10:39 AM
I honour her quiet determination and her courage to the step that started a domino effect. Every thing we do can change the world -- even staying in the seat we deserve on the bus. Thanks, Rosa.
Posted by: Meg | October 25, 2005 at 10:57 AM
Well said.
Posted by: Pattie | October 25, 2005 at 11:13 AM
And did anyone notice how damn happy she always looked? That woman smiled till the day she died...here here!
Posted by: heidi | October 25, 2005 at 11:24 AM
Absolutely!
Posted by: misfithausfrau | October 25, 2005 at 11:43 AM
Perfectly said and beautifully written, MD. Great post.
Posted by: Leora | October 25, 2005 at 11:51 AM
"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."-Rosa Parks
One of the most inspiring quotes of all-time.
Posted by: Jeffrey | October 25, 2005 at 11:58 AM
in the timeless words of OutKast
"uh huh yeah yeah baby uh huh"
best blog of the day MD.
Posted by: crazyvirgo | October 25, 2005 at 12:20 PM
in the timeless words of OutKast
"uh huh yeah yeah baby uh huh"
best blog of the day MD.
Posted by: crazyvirgo | October 25, 2005 at 12:21 PM
Jesse Jackson s saying today that this should be a national day of mourning. For once in my life, I couldn't agree with him more.
Posted by: Roland | October 25, 2005 at 01:25 PM
Rosa Parks was kind and had a quiet determination and natural understanding of what's fair and decent. God bless her.
Posted by: Alan | October 25, 2005 at 01:48 PM
Thanks, MD, for giving her proper props. Imagine if everybody really did live their life as a model for others...then everybody would be smiling as much as Rosa did.
Posted by: RBrown | October 25, 2005 at 08:56 PM
She's riding that front seat of the shuttle to heaven, I'm just sure of it.
Posted by: JustLinda | October 25, 2005 at 09:00 PM
Rosa Parks was richly undeserving of the honor of lying in state at the Capitol and all the surrounding fanfare, a sad spectacle.
She refused to get up for a white man. Whoopee. Just part of a greater political agenda of which she was a part.
To make a long story short, the woman was not just an innocent victim of predjudice that decided to protest, she had long been a secretary at the NAACP, since 1942.
Worse, she attended courses and training at the Highlander School in Tennessee a known front and gathering place of communists, subversives.
Hardly a "great American".
http://zpedia.org/Rosa_Parks
http://www.highlandercenter.org/n-rosa-parks.asp
Posted by: sam | October 31, 2005 at 03:40 PM
she was mean
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