“It's my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it's my constitutional right.”

—  Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin http://www.biography.com/people/claudette-colvin-11378 at biography.com, accessed 2 Nov 2013; Colvin said as she was getting arrested by the two police officers on the bus.

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