What are you standing up for today?
Posted December 1, 2010 at 7:54 am by Ian Byington
Mrs. Parks' mug shot....
Fifty five years ago, on the first of December in 1955, a 42-year-old woman named Rosa Parks who had wanted to be a teacher got off work. She got on the bus to go home & was ordered to sit in the back. She said no & told the driver her feet hurt.
That got her arrested, jailed, and fined, and also started the process of turning the nation’s spotlight on its apartheid laws.
There are still things we have to change to get social justice remain, and Mrs. Parks’s example is a reminder that it’s not the big things we do that will change everything, but the small changes, when they’re all added up. Not milestones, but inch-pebbles.
She became the teacher she wanted to be, and helped change the way we see & treat each other.
She was arrested for one small thing. What are you going to do, today?
“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.” Mother Teresa
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