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Today we would like to present another excerpt from our Rosa Parks readings. This one is at Rosa Parks and Lawsuits:

In March 1999, a lawsuit was filed on Parks' behalf against American hip-hop duo OutKast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used Rosa Parks' name without her permission for the song "Rosa Parks", the most successful radio single of OutKast's 1998 album Aquemini. The song's chorus, which Parks' legal defense felt was disrespectful to Parks, is as follows: "Ah ha, hush that fuss / Everybody move to the back of the bus / Do you want to bump and slump with us / We the type of people make the club get crunk."

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This quote is from John H. Patterson on executives:

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

I believe this was John Henry Patterson, the industrialist and founder of the National Cash Register Company. There were also two John H. Pattersons who were soldiers, but this does not seem like a soldierly quote.

This quote is from the great Vince Lombardi on enthusiasm:

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

What a nice play on words! Lombardi was a football coach.

This quote is from Thomas Jones on friends and enemies:

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

I went to find more information about Thomas Jones at Wikipedia, but I was not sure which one he was. Thomas Jones is a very common name and Wikipedia listed over 30 Thomas Joneses.

Finding his birth and death at Google by searching for his name and quote I found that his full name was Thomas Hudson Jones and he was in the U.S. Army’s Institute of Heraldry.

Even people in the military want to be comedians.

This quote is from Katharine Whitehorn on the easiest way for your children to learn about money:

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Whitehorn is a British journalist.