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.
CLAUDETTE COLVINNew York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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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 was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.
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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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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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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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I was ostracized by my community.
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I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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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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New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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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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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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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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I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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We were churchgoing people.
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When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.
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