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Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.

Claudette Colvin

I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.
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Hairs Myself Women
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 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
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
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
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 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 was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
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
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
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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
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 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

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