ヒラリー・クリントンのインスタグラム(hillaryclinton) - 9月11日 01時04分
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired," Rosa Parks said. "But that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Four days before refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama, Parks—a seasoned civil rights activist—had attended a meeting to address the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Till's murder came amid a wave of lynchings of black people across the South.
Parks said she considered her options when the bus driver demanded that she give up her seat for a white passenger. “I didn’t even know if I would get off the bus alive,” she said. “I felt that, if I did stand up, it meant that I approved of the way I was being treated, and I did not approve.”
Her action helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and her continued activism helped sustain it. Bill awarded Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom 23 years ago this week.
Her story of courage and resilience is one of over 100 Chelsea and I have included in "Gutsy Women," out October 1, and I can't wait to share them all. Link in bio.
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