a bit heartened, a bit saddened

Taken from an article about vigils held for Cindy Sheehan:

"She is being likened to a modern-day Rosa Parks," Brann said, referring to a leader in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

The very fact that they have to explain who Rosa Parks is/was....just kind of makes my soul die inside. And really, Parks was just fed up. Not like she had an agenda.

Or maybe I'm overreacting.