Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Rosa ParksRead
I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
Interpretation
Young people possess the power to bring about positive transformations in society.
Rosa Parks highlights the significant potential and influence of young people, suggesting that their energy and passion can serve as a driving force for positive change in the world. This emphasis on youth reflects the belief that the new generation has the ability to address social issues and inspire progress, urging society to recognize and support their contributions.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a youth conference.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
All I was trying to do was get home from work.
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
If you change the environment, you change the people.
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey.
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