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I was ostracized by my community.

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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
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
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 never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
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
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
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
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Culture Different History
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
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 ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
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 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
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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Black Establishment Myself People World
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

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