It was December 1st, 1955. A tired Rosa Parks took her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, heading home after a long day’s work. She refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.
Rosa didn’t wait for permission from a federal court to be treated like a human. She didn’t even wait for a bus driver to give her permission. So, as I wrote in today’s featured article – “we don’t need no stinkin’ permission to exercise our rights – we need to exercise them whether they the government wants us to or not.”
Donald Pennington summed it up quite nicely in his post at Gather.com:
If it can be called courage to march and speak, backed up by thousands of supporters, television, and coverage by the nation’s news media, then what can we call a single act of stubborn defiance, over an otherwise trivial matter? If we call brave, the taking a stand as part of an entire movement of a people, what title do we give the soul all alone, and simply standing up for what’s right?
As a people, a conglomeration of different groups, we can say all manner of wise thoughts about right and wrong. But, as an individual, can we all have the courage of that one woman whom though all alone, simply refused and stood her ground? When the moment of truth arrives in our lives, will we be as self-confident, defiant, and as beautiful as Rosa Parks? We may have lost Rosa Parks five years ago, but her example of the courageous choice, at the right moment, remains for us all.
Today, Parks’ resistance should be held up as a great symbol of what individuals can do for their own liberty. Whether the issue is people in 15 states refusing to obey federal marijuana laws, or 25 states refusing the Real ID act, or those many states working to resist gun laws, national health care, and the like – we can, on a state, local, and individual level, say NO! when government tells us to do things that are unconstitutional or even just flat out wrong.
Question – when government agents want to search you at an airport as if you were a criminal, or they tell you that you need to buy some health insurance plan – will you have as much courage as Rosa Parks did? For the sake of all our liberty, I hope some of us (including myself), do!
Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter - @michaelboldin, on LinkedIn, and on Facebook.
If you enjoyed this post:
Click Here to Get the Free Tenth Amendment Center Newsletter,
What does all that have to do with Rosa Parks? She believed in right and wrong. She believed in freedom. Folks today don't even know the freedoms they have given away by reason of lack of knowledge.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. Like Rosa, it is time to stand up and shrug off the politically 'correct (controlled) mantra, wake up, stand up and speak up! Thank you Rosa!
Wake up time? If folks are not awake by now, it is certainly NOT the fault of every effort being made to make truth available too them. Where are the preachers that should be standing up against abortion/ wholesale murder of the innocents and against pornography and nudity and lies on tv and in the movies? Too many are enjoying their own lusts in these same areas so they will not speak against it.
I was born free and I will remain free. This nation is founded under Almighty GOD and none other, in Christ Jesus Name. Best to remember first and foremost, without The Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit, There is no America, No sovereignty and no freedoms.
Women were 'processed' to work outside the home, leaving their children in exchange for videos, block houses, tv filled with filth and desensitizing materials and sitters. All of which instilled values other than the parents of those children, all for the almighty dollar that has absolutely no power to do anything on its own! Quality time? Give me a break!
501c3 churches are and have always been 'subjects' of the feds and now are bonafide by contract to 'help' control and calm their members, communities and masses when called upon to do so by fed agencies.
The Constitution is the Constitution. It is not to be riddled, torn apart, reappropriated or ignored.
Those that are being bought off by the feds have either knowingly or unknowingly sold their freedoms, forfeted their rights and surrendered their jurisdiction to unconstitutional agencies that will and are more than willing to treat them as subjects and NOT Citizens.
The purposdes behind the GOALS 2000 'ACT' was to dumb down students, de authorize parents once their children walk inside the fed owned schools, replace the REAL American History books with the new modern ones depicting Madonna and the kkk and for the first time ever, BURN the older History books instead of making them available in other areas.
Tenther Radio Archives
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Subscribe to entries
Subscribe to comments
All content © 2013 by Tenth Amendment Center Blog
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by TenthAmendmentCenter, Lisa Brown. Lisa Brown said: RT @TenthAmendment: #10th: Remembering Rosa Parks http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/12/remembering-rosa-parks/ [...]