Thursday, March 13, 2014

TIRED
"Legend has it that years later a graduate student came to Rosa Parks and asked, "Why did you sit down at the front of the bus that day?" Rosa Parks did not say she sat down to launch a movement, because her motives were more elemental than that.  She said, "I sat down because I was tired."  But she did not mean that her feet were tired.  She meant that her soul was tired, her heart was tired, her whole being was tired of playing by racist rules, of denying her soul's claim to selfhood. . . She decided, 'I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply on the inside.  I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself to be inwardly."
-Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer
Preach it, Rosa.

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