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When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

Claudette Colvin

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
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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God Grow Up Love People White
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
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 never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young

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