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French Anti-Fascist Stéphane Hessel Dies at 95 Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled in Washington, D.C.
Hessel joined the French Resistance during World War II, was caught by the Gestapo and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He escaped during transfer to Bergen-Belsen and later helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2010, he became an unlikely best-selling author when his pamphlet-length book, "Time for Outrage," sold millions of copies around the world and helped inspire protests like Occupy Wall Street. As the movement spread in the fall of 2011, Hessel explained to Democracy Now! why he was encouraged by nonviolent resistance.
as reported by Democracy Now! on Thursday, February 28, 2013. Vihttp://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/28/headlines#22810
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Comment by Tony Nuspl on February 28, 2013 at 9:15pm
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Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled in Washington, D.C.
President Obama presided over a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday unveiling a statue of the late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her act of resistance led to a 13-month boycott of the Montgomery bus system that would help spark the civil rights movement.
President Obama: "She lived a life of activism, but also a life of dignity and grace. And in a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America and change the world. Rosa Parks’ singular act of disobedience launched a movement. The tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of Montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. It is because of these men and women that I stand here today. It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free and more fair, a land truer to its founding creed."
(For more on the life of Rosa Parks, watch the Democracy Now! hour-long special on Rosa Parks with historian Jeanne Theoharis, author of the new biography, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.")
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