Quotes from Claudette Colvin

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

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.

New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, and by 1956 NAACP leaders came to me and asked me to be part of a lawsuit they wanted to file on my behalf and that of three other women, to challenge segregation on public buses.

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.

I'd like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.

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.

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.