Chapter 9. Shaping the Agile Organization
In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white person after the white section was filled. She later said in an interview that, "I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen." (Charles Marsh, 2006, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights to Today.) Her values of equality, rights, and citizenship were made clear that day when she told the bus driver to go ahead and have her arrested as she would not move from her seat. She was in fact arrested, and subsequently went to trial; her actions sparked a Women's Political Council distribution of 35,000 brochures that called for the boycotting of Montgomery buses. That boycott continued for 381 days! The courage of Parks defined a moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
When was the last time you took a stand for something? You don't have to be a president to find your...
