Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation - Hardcover

Parks, Rosa; Reed, Gregory J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0310501504 ISBN 13: 9780310501503

Publisher: Zondervan, 1994

Synopsis

The author shares her thoughts about her life, faith, and values

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Parks, one of the U.S.' authentic living legends, is the black lady who on December 1, 1955, refused to surrender her bus seat to a white man, was arrested under the Jim Crow law that required blacks to make way for whites, and thereby launched the yearlong bus boycott by blacks in Birmingham, Alabama, which led to the national overturning of that city's and similar segregation laws across the nation. In this tiny collection of what seem like outtakes from oral-history tapes, she rehearses her great day (as it seems from the perspective of history; Parks remembers it as "not a happy experience. . . . I had not planned to be arrested"), stressing that it wasn't, as many have romanticized, because her feet were tired that she didn't move, but because she was "tired of being oppressed . .ÿ20. just plain tired." Her remarks, disposed somewhat arbitrarily into sections topically named "Fear," "Pain," "Character," "Faith," "Values," reflect her lifelong commitment to justice for black Americans and to peace and equal opportunity for all. Further, she leaves no doubt that her persistence in these causes springs from her deep Christian faith and the obligation she feels to make a better world for future generations. Perhaps the sentiments are not all that special, but their speaker certainly is special. Ray Olson

Edition details

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0310501504
• ISBN 13: 9780310501503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 93