She took a stand by sitting down. Here's how Rosa Parks dedicated her life to human rights.
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00:00Rosa Parks tells us there's always something we can do
00:20He had his shotgun ready, and I set up with him all night, and I still have a
00:26Chronic insomnia from some of the things I lived through when I was a child
00:49Most of the time we spent together
00:52was talking about freedom and
00:57Freedom of religion, freedom to vote, all freedom for everybody
01:09Simply because she entered through the front door when the back door was too crowded
01:17He grabbed her sleeve, and he pushed her off the bus
01:20It made her mad enough she would recall that she avoided riding his bus for a while
01:38And when I refused and was taken to jail
01:41With the simplest of gestures, she helped change America and change the world
01:54Well, we hope to achieve equal rights with any human being
02:54I'm hoping that we will continue to do all that we can to help our youth because they are our future
03:24Called the first lady of civil rights, she has remained committed to the cause of freedom, speaking out against injustice here and abroad