To: jmc1969
I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity.
11 posted on
10/24/2005 7:02:29 PM PDT by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity. That's enough to earn respect in any event. I may not agre with everything she said, but I can respect her courage.
25 posted on
10/24/2005 7:08:29 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
((Aubrey, Tx) --- Truth, Justice and the American Way)
To: billorites
I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity In other words, the real deal...
40 posted on
10/24/2005 7:18:34 PM PDT by
podkane
To: billorites
"I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity."
Someone who did something because it was right, not because there was a news crew nearby.
Those who use her name (in vain, mostly) might profit by her example.
46 posted on
10/24/2005 7:23:05 PM PDT by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: billorites
I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity.True, poignant observation.
48 posted on
10/24/2005 7:23:38 PM PDT by
quantim
(I just reek of the antithesis of liberalism. They smell me and scatter like rats.)
To: billorites
You're right. Others did. They exploited her for their own agenda. Thats the pity of it all, she never once came out and opposed their destroying her name. Nice what she did. Shame how it turned out.
194 posted on
10/25/2005 4:53:48 AM PDT by
RedBloodedAmerican
(did she have to sit in the back of the hearse?)
To: billorites
No, she did not. And she also did not use her position for partisan purposes. She sent a letter to J.C. Watts asking him not to leave Congress, wanting blacks holding office in both parties.
To: billorites
I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity. Most civil rights heroes don't. In fact, quite the opposite, in some instances. Consider Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcom X.
Both died as a result of their "celebrity", for lack of a better word. :-/
It's only fitting that someone with Ms. Parks' spark and "spunk" possesses such longevity and live to see age 92. May she rest well.
-U.
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