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I'd see the bus pass every day... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.
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I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
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Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
February 4, 1913
Died:
October 24, 2005
(aged 92)
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