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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.

Claudette Colvin

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
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 sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
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
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
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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Difficult Education Opportunity People Value Win 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’d like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.
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Family Myself See
I was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
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
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
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
Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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Myself Oneself Oppression Strength
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 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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