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I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.

Claudette Colvin

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

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

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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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  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’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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  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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  I never swore when I was young.

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

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  New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

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