"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case; you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." ~~ Winston Churchill
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Getting The Rosa Parks Legacy Right
Thomas Bray writes an interesting column about the passing of Rosa Parks. He says her legacy should be remembered as a civil rights revolution for human liberty, the right to be treated equally before the law, the right to choose one’s own path. In other words, human dignity and not for the victimology popular among latter-day civil rights leaders, who assert that African Americans are still trapped in a racial miasma of poverty, discrimination and de facto segregation.
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