Rosa Parks -- A remarkable woman

It was Shakespeare who said " Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them" . Rosa Parks was a great lady by any standards.

Here is the Editorial from Boston Globe :

IT WAS Dec. 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., a city where segregation and racism danced freely and legally in the streets and blacks were supposed to sit in the back.Thanks to Parks, who died at home in Detroit on Monday at the age of 92, the back of the bus has never been the same. Now people sit there because they want to or because there are no other seats. This change helped free America from its worst self.Parks was arrested that day.Parks's arrest became a spark for a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus service, a hard fight waged by Parks, Nixon, Martin Luther King Jr., the grass-roots Women's Political Council, and others. In 1956, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery's policy was illegal.

So if ever anyone fools you that leaders are born, don't believe it. We all can aspire for greatness , if we have right character & attitude. I think that is the lesson to be learnt from Rosa Parks, who died day before yesterday. I don't even know that lady but I salute her courage !