Rosa Parks Bold Actions

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Do you consider Rosa Parks bold action to be worth it? I believe that bold actions are worth the risk. People can affect many lives by taking bold actions. Rosa Parks for example, refused to give up her bus seat which caused the bus boycott, and that helped pass the civil rights act. If Rosa Parks had not done this then the civil rights act would have been delayed many years. Martin Luther King Jr. also took many bold risk that helped the civil rights act. People can learn important lessons from others that take bold actions. In the greek myth Icarus, Daedalus and his son Icarus take a bold action by building wings and escaping the island they are imprisoned on. Icarus is bewitched by his new sense freedom and takes a risk by flying high.

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