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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.

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• ‟ When I got to 10th grade at Booker T. Washington High, I had a teacher, Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. I think she came from New York. She helped me begin to question things.

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