The Ojai Post

Interesting conversation from my Facebook page:

I posted a quote: "Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so our children can fly!" It's a beautiful quote, but there's little agreement as to who said it first.

A commenter added: I've also seen it with "Martin marched so Jesse could stand. Jesse stood so Barack could run"...I like the addition of Jackson as it pays homage to the post-60's fighters.

I replied: And yet another addition to the original quote was, "Crispus fell, so Rosa Parks could sit..." referring to Crispus Attucks, who was killed during the Boston Massacre of 1770. I like the original best.

Source: Daily Kos.

Boston Gazette on Oct 2, 1750 -- "Ran away from his Master William Brown from Framingham, on the 30th of Sept. last, a Molatto Fellow, about 27 Years of age, named Crispas, 6 Feet two Inches high, short curl'd Hair, his Knees nearer together than common: had on a light colour'd Bearskin Coat." The owner offered a reward of ten pounds for the return of the slave and warned ship captains against giving him refuge. George Washington Williams noted that the advertisement appeared again on November 13 and November 20. Biographers surveyed that Attucks escaped to Nantucket, Massachusetts, and sailed as a harpoonist on a whaling ship.