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r3x29yz4a said:
In her own words she was simply tired and didn't feel like moving.
Here are her own words on the matter from her autobiography:
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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 tired 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.
Previous to her arrest she and her husband were both active in the civil rights, and she even worked for the NAACP. Washington and Kennedy may have become president for reasons other than supporting their country, but you can hardly compare that to standing up against a social injustice in a time and place that would respond with death threats and acts of violence against your person. She knew there was a shit storm coming because of her one single act, yet she did it anyway. Stubborn? Yeah, she was stubborn; but so was Gandhi and every other person who's brough about social change. It's a required trait. Lazy? Hardly so. Lazy people take the easy way out, which, in this case, would have been to move further back in the bus. Instead, she sat, lost her job, received countless death threats, spent a shitload of money on her legal fees, and had to move to Detroit for her own saftey. So, Ray, please understand all of your facts first before spouting things off like you are prone to do.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet." Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."
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