Everything You Need to Know About Rosa Parks

She took a stand by sitting down. Here's how Rosa Parks dedicated her life to human rights.

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00:00Rosa Parks tells us there's always something we can do

00:20He had his shotgun ready, and I set up with him all night, and I still have a

00:26Chronic insomnia from some of the things I lived through when I was a child

00:49Most of the time we spent together

00:52was talking about freedom and

00:57Freedom of religion, freedom to vote, all freedom for everybody

01:09Simply because she entered through the front door when the back door was too crowded

01:17He grabbed her sleeve, and he pushed her off the bus

01:20It made her mad enough she would recall that she avoided riding his bus for a while

01:38And when I refused and was taken to jail

01:41With the simplest of gestures, she helped change America and change the world

01:54Well, we hope to achieve equal rights with any human being

02:54I'm hoping that we will continue to do all that we can to help our youth because they are our future

03:24Called the first lady of civil rights, she has remained committed to the cause of freedom, speaking out against injustice here and abroad