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Jessica
We don’t realize the power that resides within us to influence the world until our courage surpasses our fears. On the other side of fear lies our potential and purpose. My daughter once told me, “Every day as I leave the house, I ask myself, how will I be different when I walk back through this door? What will I have learned and how will I have grown?” I have realized the answers to those questions will never come unless I remember what Rosa Parks once said, “To bring change, you must not be afraid to take the first step.” On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks walked out of her house without the intention of being arrested or being the start to the Montgomery bus boycotts, but that is exactly what her courage evoked. She had just finished a day's work and stepped onto the city bus. She noticed a vacant seat in the middle of the bus and sat down. When encouraged to give her seat up for a white man, her response was, “Nah.” In her own words she said, “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” “As I sat there, I tried not to think about what might happen. I knew anything was possible. I could be manhandled or beaten. I could be arrested. In fact, if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus. But I chose to remain.” Rosa Parks' courage to remain added more fuel to a growing movement that was necessary to end segregation. She knew that progress comes with a price and that to create change one must be brave. She said, "I have learned over the years that when one 's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Her determination for change has inspired the world to realize that even while standing up for something, you can sit down.
We don’t realize the power that resides within us to influence the world until our courage surpasses our fears. On the other side of fear lies our potential and purpose. My daughter once told me, “Every day as I leave the house, I ask myself, how will I be different when I walk back through this door? What will I have learned and how will I have grown?” I have realized the answers to those questions will never come unless I remember what Rosa Parks once said, “To bring change, you must not be afraid to take the first step.” On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks walked out of her house without the intention of being arrested or being the start to the Montgomery bus boycotts, but that is exactly what her courage evoked. She had just finished a day's work and stepped onto the city bus. She noticed a vacant seat in the middle of the bus and sat down. When encouraged to give her seat up for a white man, her response was, “Nah.” In her own words she said, “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” “As I sat there, I tried not to think about what might happen. I knew anything was possible. I could be manhandled or beaten. I could be arrested. In fact, if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus. But I chose to remain.” Rosa Parks' courage to remain added more fuel to a growing movement that was necessary to end segregation. She knew that progress comes with a price and that to create change one must be brave. She said, "I have learned over the years that when one 's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Her determination for change has inspired the world to realize that even while standing up for something, you can sit down.
"To bring change, you must not be afraid to take the first step."