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

Claudette Colvin

There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
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 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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
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
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
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
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
For African-Americans, it’s still going to be – some people say double hard – I’d say four times as hard. Be an opportunist. Take advantage of your resources, because the only way to win is with education, self-esteem, having value in yourself.
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Difficult Education Opportunity People Value Win Yourself
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 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
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 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’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

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