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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.

Claudette Colvin

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
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
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 was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
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 sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
I’ve always told my children that once they go out into the world, they must have two heads and two minds: one to keep grounded, the other to deal with corporate America.
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Children Deal Myself World
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
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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
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
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
I never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
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
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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Mom Myself Satisfaction Stop
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

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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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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