posted on October 30, 2005 04:32:21 PM new
anyone watching the tv coverage of her body being taken to the rotunda? it's quite moving actually, to watch and reflect on how one small action by one brave individual can so change our world.
i like what the Rev. Harold A. Carter, (pastor of New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore, who'll say the closing prayer for the 1:00 p.m. services tomorrow in DC), said about her: Parks "was like a match set to a barn that was ready to burn. She came at a divine moment...She was the person that history chose to initiate a worldwide movement."
posted on October 30, 2005 05:49:19 PM new
Indeed ... incredible and wonderful woman she was.
and for SOME reason (don't remember what started it) I read a lot of information today from googling something elwse, on the incredible black woman named Sojourner Truth from the mid 1800's ...
posted on October 30, 2005 06:27:52 PM new
It's great to be able to honor a true hero, and Rosa certainly was one of the best. (Oh, and ditto for Sojourner Truth!)
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posted on October 30, 2005 07:55:00 PM new
While watching the news tonight I told my husband that I really wished we could go to DC to pay our respects to her. We are only an hour away but will not be able to go during the viewing period. This is the first thing that the government has done that made me proud in the last five years.
Rosa Parks is the answer to question "What can one person do to change the world?"
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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posted on October 30, 2005 08:09:36 PM new
YES! We need more "Rosa Parks" now!
She didn't want to take it anymore and got mad and DID SOMETHING!
She caused TROUBLE with the establishment ! She woke people up! She risked her life for what was right.
What a woman!
