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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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  I was ostracized by my community.

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

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

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

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  I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.

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

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  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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  Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn’t get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it.

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

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  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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