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That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.

Claudette Colvin

I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
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Dream Myself People Right Thinking Young
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
There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn’t even go into the same restaurants.
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Oppression 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
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 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
I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.
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Act Myself Time White
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
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Culture Different History
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 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
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

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