"Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, why don't the adults around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there's no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'"
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.