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When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.

Claudette Colvin

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 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
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’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
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
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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
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 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
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 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 never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
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
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Culture Different History

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