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When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.

Claudette Colvin

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 was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.
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Crazy Friendship Lost Myself
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
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
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
What do we have to do to make God love us?’ I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. ‘God loved the white people better. He must’ve. That’s why he made them white.’
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God Grow Up Love People White
A lot has changed since I grew up, but there’s still a long way to go. I don’t think we can move forward with Donald Trump as the president. There’s a disconnect there. We don’t want to regress, we want progress.
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Change Grow Up Myself Thinking
For African-Americans, it’s still going to be – some people say double hard – I’d say four times as hard. Be an opportunist. Take advantage of your resources, because the only way to win is with education, self-esteem, having value in yourself.
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Difficult Education Opportunity People Value Win Yourself
I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.
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Live Myself Place
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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.
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Hairs Myself Women
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 sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep

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