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I never swore when I was young.

Claudette Colvin

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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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  When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

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  I never swore when I was young.

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  New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

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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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  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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  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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  I’d like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.

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  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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  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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  I was ostracized by my community.

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

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

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  We were churchgoing people.

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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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