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I was ostracized by my community.

Claudette Colvin

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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Darkness People Skin
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
I was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
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
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
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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God Live Thankful Worth
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
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
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
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
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
I never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
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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Crazy Friendship Lost Myself
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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.
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Father Human Ourselves People

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