Why we need the politics of dignity

 
Public transport can bestow dignity on both a city and its citizens. Politics determines whether it does – and we need more of it
 Rosa Parks became an enduring symbol of the civil rights movement in the US. Pictured is a sculpture of her inside a bus at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis
 December 1, 1955: Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man on a bus in Montgomery and was arrested. This led to a year long bus boycott