"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."
Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights activist known for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her act of resistance occurred months before Rosa Parks' widely known protest. She was also a plaintiff in the Browder v. Gayle case challenging bus segregation.