Tuesday, October 25, 2005

[223.1] REMEMBERING RISK-TAKING ROSA

I woke up this morning to the sad news that Rosa Parks of US civil rights fame (the 1951 Alabama bus boycott) has died, aged 92. She was, and will remain, an incredible inspiration to Christians and to many others committed to social justice - and to those risky acts of non-violent resistance whereby the truthful power of love subverts and overcomes the oppressive love of power (and its hatred of 'the other').

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