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Claudette Colvin

That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
I was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
I wanted to be an attorney. My mother would say I never stopped talking. I always had a lot of questions to ask, and I was never satisfied with the answer. A lot of things I wasn’t satisfied by.
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Mom Myself Satisfaction Stop
When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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Humility People Yourself
I never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
The light-skinned girls always thought they were better looking. So did the teachers, too. That meant most of the dark complexion ones didn’t like themselves.
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Darkness People Skin
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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Black Establishment Myself People World
When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.
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Heart Mom Myself Pregnant
I’ve always told my children that once they go out into the world, they must have two heads and two minds: one to keep grounded, the other to deal with corporate America.
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Children Deal Myself World
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.
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Father Human Ourselves People
Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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Myself Oneself Oppression Strength
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.
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Achievement Children Equality Person Protection True White
Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn’t the case at all.
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End People Young
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story

There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.

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