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

Claudette Colvin

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

Father Human Ourselves People
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
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
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Culture Different History
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
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
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
I never swore when I was young.
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Myself 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
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
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
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 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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Dream Myself People Right Thinking Young
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

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