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I never swore when I was young.

Claudette Colvin

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

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

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  We were churchgoing people.

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  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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  When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.

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

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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.

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  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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  I was ostracized by my community.

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