Bus Signs

On the bus there are many advertisements. There are also poems and quotes and general warm-fuzzy inducing posters.

When I first started riding the bus I saw a sign applauding Rosa Parks. It reads:

Rosa Parks: A quest for human dignity,
A quiet act of courage.

That really resonated within me. Until one day I noticed that the poster had been vandalized. It now read:

Rosa Parks: A quest for human dignity,
A ----- act of ---rage.

This really got me thinking about my perspective on things. Sure, it was a quiet act of courage, but even more certainly, it was also a very vocal act of outrage.

Now, I smile and pause for a moment to think whenever I see one of these corrected posters.