Rosa Parks summed up a significant moment
in history with these humble words:
“I didn’t get on the bus to get arrested.
I got on the bus to get home.”
Montgomery, Alabama, 1955.
The shockwaves of a woman,
a black woman,
sitting in that seat
rattled the pedestals
of the self-appointed white righteous.
Arrested for “refusing to obey order of bus driver”,
nationality defined as “negro”,
complexion “black”,
build “medium”, mug shot “7053”,
this bespectacled 42-year-old,
five-foot three citizen became an icon of resistance,
a living symbol
underlining the right in civil rights,
later awarded medals and remembered on Rosa Parks Day.
"I got on the bus to get home."
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