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

Claudette Colvin

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
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
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
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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Oppression 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
Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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Myself Oneself Oppression Strength
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
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 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 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 never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
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
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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Crazy Friendship Lost Myself
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
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

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