Maya’s Own

Being a rebel may not only change you but you may also change the world. Whether good or bad, the world needs rebels, people who think outside the box and dare to be different, not because they are “bad” but because they have a need to explore other avenues and ways of doing things.




Civil Rights Activists Coretta King and Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, 1975

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Just try to think of some personality, be it in politics, arts  science or business and you will find that they more often than not went against the established way of thinking and forged their own path to achieving their dream. Rebels can become heroes or villains, what makes the two extremes so alike is their singular will to go where no body has gone before.Now a real rebel, well in my eyes at least is usually born to many challenges, economic, racial that he/she must overcome, and more often than not their initial rebellion comes at great cost or risk to themselves. One particular person comes to mind here: Rosa Parks. born in 1913 in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1955, going home after work   she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man,  Rosa was then arrested, tried and convicted, this sparked a boycott of the bus system by blacks and a a result  the US  Supreme Court outlawed segregation on buses.

Rosa Parks became a rebel because of her deep sense of injustice

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

This one act of rebellion not only brought Martin Luther King Jr to national prominence but helped to  kick off the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks was without a doubt a rebel who became a hero, she stepped out of her comfort zone and risked jail in a time when blacks were not permitted to speak up.

“The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest”