Both these humble women took action ~ without which there is no change ~ and both stirred movements which did and will result in significant political change.
Rosa Parks famous quote could probably be said by Cindy Sheehan ~
" The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest "
Rosa Parks celebrated a little over a year later, Dec. 21, 1956, when a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on city public transit vehicles took effect.
And Cindy Sheehan will celebrate in November 2006 when a properly outraged American electorate will return a severely damaged Republic to the people ~ and a Democratic Congress will be elected.
Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald, puts it well ~ " It would all be the same old song, except for the way Sheehan's protest has galvanized opponents of the war, given face and voice to their gnawing anger over a costly conflict whose resemblance to Vietnam is becoming inescapable. They have coalesced around Sheehan with an alacrity suggesting a movement that had only been waiting for a leader ."
Like Rosa Park, Cindy Sheehan has made a lonely courageous stand for justice and touched a nation's conscience and heart in the process.
Cindy's question has now become America's question and it is increasingly obvious that Bush has no satisfactory answer for it .
A year from now, we will look back to the tipping point of this arrogant, deceptive and corrupt Cheney/Bush Administration.
That point was Friday, August 12th, when George Bush and his entourage drove by Cindy and her fellow protestors and left them in his hubristic dust ~ just like he has left all Americans.
Allen L Roland
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