[New post] December 1 2023 The Defiance of Authority as Liberation and Transformation: Rosa Parks Ignites the Civil Rights Movement 66 Years Ago Today
jayofdollhousepark posted: " Many of the people I write about in my Literary Celebrations venue are Hegelian world-geniuses, polymaths whose transformative vision redefined what it means to be human and changed the possibilities of our becoming. Today we honor Rosa Parks, who did th" Torch of Liberty
Many of the people I write about in my Literary Celebrations venue are Hegelian world-geniuses, polymaths whose transformative vision redefined what it means to be human and changed the possibilities of our becoming. Today we honor Rosa Parks, who did the same not because of unique gifts of intellect or the enormity and refinement of scholarship, but because of her moral genius and courage of action in the defiance of unjust authority and overwhelming force and control in the liberation of humankind and the transformation of our civilization and our being, meaning, and value.
When Rosa Parks refused to obey the laws of racial segregation and inequality, she ignited the Civil Rights Movement and reshaped the systems and structures of our nation and our world forever. One woman, with no allies around her, no special training in resistance nor ideology with which to plan strategies, neither a professor nor a combat veteran nor bearing the weight of historical narratives of heroic revolutionary struggle; not an avenging angel of righteousness but simply a person who said no to authority and refused to submit.
A single voice which came to speak for us all, and became a tidal wave of change as a voice of America, bearing with it new possibilities of becoming human.
Today we celebrate the genius of ordinary people and of action, for each of us bears the hope of the world.
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