Anonymous
I am only one person
I am only one person
What can one person do?
Rosa Parks
Was just one person
She said one word
She said it on December 1, 1955
One person
Said one word
She said it on a bus
She said it to the bus driver
On the Cleveland Street Bus in Montgomery
The bus driver said,
“Stand up, Nigger woman, And give your seat to that white man!”
Rosa Parks
One Person
Said one word
That word was “no”
One woman
Said one word
And a nation blushed!
One woman
Said one word
And a world talked!
One woman
Said one word
And the Supreme Court
Acted!
One woman
Said one word
And the buses were
Desegregated!
I am only one person
What can one person do?
They put her in jail,
Because she didn’t know her place
Because she didn’t stay in her place
Because she was an “uppity Nigger”
It was Thursday
When she said
That one word
On Monday morning
The buses ran
The negroes walked
Each white man had two seats
Empty seats
Symbols of a people
Moved to walk,
Moved to march,
Moved to act,
By the sound of
One woman’s
One word,
“No!”
One woman
Said one word
and 17,000 people
Walked
I am only one person
What can one person do?
Rosa Parks
Was just one person
She said one word
She said it on December 1, 1955
One person
Said one word
She said it on a bus
She said it to the bus driver
On the Cleveland Street Bus in Montgomery
The bus driver said,
“Stand up, Nigger woman, And give your seat to that white man!”
Rosa Parks
One Person
Said one word
That word was “no”
One woman
Said one word
And a nation blushed!
One woman
Said one word
And a world talked!
One woman
Said one word
And the Supreme Court
Acted!
One woman
Said one word
And the buses were
Desegregated!
I am only one person
What can one person do?
They put her in jail,
Because she didn’t know her place
Because she didn’t stay in her place
Because she was an “uppity Nigger”
It was Thursday
When she said
That one word
On Monday morning
The buses ran
The negroes walked
Each white man had two seats
Empty seats
Symbols of a people
Moved to walk,
Moved to march,
Moved to act,
By the sound of
One woman’s
One word,
“No!”
One woman
Said one word
and 17,000 people
Walked