In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
“Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.”
“The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.”