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Your Quotes for 27 October 2005 - Sitting

Rosa Parks died at her Detroit, Michigan home on Monday of this week at 92. We are traditionally told that, to effect change, we need to stand up for something. Fifty years ago this tired seamstress kept her seat and changed the world. Ordered to give up her seat so a white man could take it, she refused. Her arrest became the focus of a bus boycott that lasted over a year and propelled Dr Martin Luther King, Jr into prominence. Parks and King prevailed and all public transportation was desegregated, but Parks had to leave Montgomery a year later to avoid death threats. Thanks, Rosa, for taking a sit.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
     - Carl Hermann Voss

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
     - Charles William Stubbs

I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring.
     - Dodie Smith

The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.
     - Jules Renard, 1864 - 1910

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
     - Robert Charles Benchley, 1889 - 1945

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.
     - Yiddish proverb

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