Rosa Courage Quotes

Only because of historical context do we know this took a ton of courage. Sitting usually isn't up there with rescuing women and children from a burning building, but in Parks's case it was a pretty courageous act.

For most of us, it's pretty easy to do nothing, and takes absolutely no courage whatsoever. When Rosa Parks decided to "do nothing" by not getting up from her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955, it was one of the baddest acts of courage in the Civil Rights movement.

This is one of the rare occasions where Dove offers us a glimpse into Parks's inner courage. She's got a fire in her eyes. And… cue "Eye of the Tiger".

This is a pretty clever line break by Dove. When we read the lines that follow, we discover that Parks, in this scene, is literally standing up, but when read on its own it's a testament to the "stand" Parks took for Civil Rights.