On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama . Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51