{"id":624,"date":"2005-10-24T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=624"},"modified":"2014-03-09T09:17:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T13:17:39","slug":"an-individual-expression-of-a-timeless-longing-for-human-dignity-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/624\/an-individual-expression-of-a-timeless-longing-for-human-dignity-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;&#8230;an individual expression of a timeless longing for human dignity and freedom&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosa Parks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/25\/national\/25parks.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">has passed on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I felt that as a person, if I did not want to be mistreated, there was no way I was going to stop being mistreated if I accepted it continuously&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8212; Rosa Parks<\/p>\n<p><em>Actually no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, &#8216;I can take it no longer.&#8217; Mrs. Parks&#8217;s refusal to move back was her intrepid affirmation that she had had enough. It was an individual expression of a timeless longing for human dignity and freedom. She was not &#8216;planted&#8217; there by the N.A.A.C.P. or any other organization; she was planted there by her personal sense of dignity and self-respect. She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Stride Toward Freedom&#8221;, Dr. Martin Luther King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosa Parks has passed on. I felt that as a person, if I did not want to be mistreated, there was no way I was going to stop being mistreated if I accepted it continuously&#8230; &#8212; Rosa Parks Actually no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}