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

Claudette Colvin

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 were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
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
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Culture Different History
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
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
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

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