Meanwhile, the bus boycott continued. Take a moment to think about how willing you would be to commit to doing something that was a significant inconvenience to you for many months. Most people fail at New Year’s resolutions within a couple of weeks. The Montgomery bus boycott was a massive push against the forces of resistance that wanted, more than anything else, for things to stay the same. It required the daily choice by tens of thousands of people to take part in something bigger than themselves for a cause greater than themselves.

