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Quotation of the Day for May 19, 2014"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more qtired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." - Rosa Parks, from her autobiography, recalling what led her tqo refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, 1955. Her spontaneous action led to a boycott of Montgomery buses in protest and was a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 19, 2014  |
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