The first of December should be a national holiday in America as it was on this day in 1955 that a seamstress refused to move to the back of a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The law said she had to move because her skin color was black. Her singular act of courage rocked the nation and started a revolution.
This woman, Rosa Parks, ... is an important reminder that the great changes in society occur when one or two people of conscience act.
- Michael Moore, _Stupid White Men..._, p. xv
