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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Culture Different History
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
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
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
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 sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep

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

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