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I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

Claudette Colvin

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.
CLAUDETTE COLVIN

Crazy Friendship Lost Myself
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
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
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
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
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
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
I was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid their fare just like the white passengers.
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Myself Right White Young
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
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
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
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 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
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

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

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