Rosa Parks. Proper noun. An African American female worker from Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was sitting down on a bus driving home after a long day of work. A white man came onto the bus, and all the seats were filled. The bus driver told her to move, and she said “No.” Rosa Parks was arrested because she did not move for a white man to sit down. On October 1st, 2005, Oprah Winfrey’s speech, Eulogy For Rosa Parks, shows how proud and grateful she is that Rosa Parks stood up not only for herself, but also for every colored people. Winfrey talks about how Rosa Parks is courageous to stand up for herself and for everyone else and thanks her for not moving. Oprah Winfrey’s eulogy
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Whenever Winfrey was a little girl, she thought Rosa Parks was a big woman, but when she first met her, it turned out she was a small women who had enormous courage not move. “I said ‘Thank you,’ for myself and for every colored girl, every colored boy, who didn’t have heroes who were celebrated” (Winfrey 1). Oprah shows appeal to emotion by talking about how she feel and made us thankful and grateful for what Rosa Parks did. Reading this quote helps readers understand how Oprah felt. Winfrey explains how she realized God uses good people like Rosa Parks to do great things. She shows her admiration for Rosa by the tone and the way she talked about her. “That day that you refused to give up your seat on the bus, you, Rosa Parks, changed the trajectory of my life and the lives of so many other people in the world” (Winfrey 1). Oprah thanks
Whenever Winfrey was a little girl, she thought Rosa Parks was a big woman, but when she first met her, it turned out she was a small women who had enormous courage not move. “I said ‘Thank you,’ for myself and for every colored girl, every colored boy, who didn’t have heroes who were celebrated” (Winfrey 1). Oprah shows appeal to emotion by talking about how she feel and made us thankful and grateful for what Rosa Parks did. Reading this quote helps readers understand how Oprah felt. Winfrey explains how she realized God uses good people like Rosa Parks to do great things. She shows her admiration for Rosa by the tone and the way she talked about her. “That day that you refused to give up your seat on the bus, you, Rosa Parks, changed the trajectory of my life and the lives of so many other people in the world” (Winfrey 1). Oprah thanks