Posted by Dinah on November 2, 2005, at 13:24:54
In reply to on Civility » alexandra_k, posted by Toph on November 2, 2005, at 11:00:24
Actually I have never heard that Rosa Parks behavior was anything but civil. That's the power in it. It was a perfectly civil act of standing against an unjust law.
Had she been uncivil about her disobedience, I daresay it would not have been the watershed event it became.
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