Graduation Speech: Ernest Green, Rosa Parks And Jackie Robinson

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Have ever heard the saying “Turn your cheek...turn your other cheek…”. That is what Ernest Green, Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson all had to do. There are times when your are in hard situations and you feel like you just can’t take it anymore. Ernest Green’s brother was about to get into a fight with some white tennagers, but Ernest stoped him. Then Ernest’s brother asks Ernest “What do you do when you run out of cheeks?” To keep on turning cheeks you have to be strong and tough like Ernest Green, Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others paved the way of nonviolence. Ernest Green stuck up for himself without resorting to physical violence. When a classmate at Ernest’s school came up and sat next to him and popped