I never swore when I was young.
CLAUDETTE COLVINI’d like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.
More Claudette Colvin Quotes
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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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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 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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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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There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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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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New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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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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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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I was ostracized by my community.
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Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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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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When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.
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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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