A few weeks back I was watching the Eyes on the Prize documentary (excellent series) and heard Coretta Scott King talk about the fateful Montgomery Bus Boycott. At first the Montgomery Improvement Association did not ask for integration on the buses, but just asked to be treated better.
But when this common courtesy was refused, then the association decided to ask for what they really wanted…integration.
And it struck me, how many times have I hoped for just a little bit better of something but have not asked for what I really want.
What if you ask for what you really desire and pursue it, no matter what the struggle.
It wasn’t easy.
It wasn’t an overnight success.
It took an entire community, mobilized to help one another with car pools, legal advocates, and all sorts of other support. But after 381 days, the people of Montgomery, Alabama broke a defective system.
Cracked it wide open.
So when you think that you are getting nowhere, imagine what it would be like to push for change for days, years, generations, until finally the world shifts.
Thanks to Rosa Parks, Dr. King, NAACP, SNCC and all the other amazing civil rights leaders who pushed for more and stood up for what is right.
We have it in our power to transform this world for healing, for integration, and for peace.
It starts with you.
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What do you desire? Where can you take a stand for what is right?