I had given up my seat ...

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
 Rosa Parks

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Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.
 Lawrence Jackson
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 Henri Bergson

Quotes from the same author

I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
 Rosa Parks
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
 Rosa Parks
I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.
 Rosa Parks
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
 Rosa Parks
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
 Rosa Parks