When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.
CLAUDETTE COLVINBeing 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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That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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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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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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When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.
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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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I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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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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When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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I was ostracized by my community.
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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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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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I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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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 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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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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