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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 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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Mom Myself Satisfaction Stop
I never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
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
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
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
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
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
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 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 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 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’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 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
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
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

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

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