Thursday, September 27, 2007

"This world has no need for weapons, which soon turn on themselves...The most fruitful outcome does not depend on force..." (30). This quote reminds me of Rosa Parks. I'm sure we are all familiar with her story. This black woman became famous for making huge advances for colored people in America using civil rights activism. Rosa Parks was a passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. When asked to stand in order for white passengers to sit, Rosa Parks decided to make a stand for herself. Rosa had been sitting in the colored section for a long time, and these new white passengers that entered the bus should not have had any more rights than her. Instead of using violence or raising her voice, Rosa Parks simply refused to rise from her seat. Civil disobedience is a concept that Tao would agree with. According to wikipedia, civil disobedience is "the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence." Rosa Parks made a difference for herself and all African Americans of her time without using violence. Sometimes, peaceful measures are more effective than violence actions.

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