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Emelia C.Interviewed by: L.R.
"Right now, my license expired. I can’t get a license. Each time I drive to somewheres, I fear that a police will stop me [and] take me to jail just because I don't have a license, nor valid documents."
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Phillip FarringtonPhillip Woolley
"You see, there never was segregation in Mexico as far as black and white was concerned, however there was segregation as far as poor and wealthy."
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David B.As Interviewed by Luca Venegoni
"It was unfair that people who could afford to go to college could avoid the draft while people without enough money couldn’t."
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Ivory TateAs Interviewed by Hunter Bagby
"I like to think that I am a part of making sure people are aware of what their rights are and... a part of making sure that the kinds of things I experienced when I was younger in the ‘70s and ‘80s aren’t a part of the time that we are living in today."
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Brendan T. WoodKate Sheblak
"When I think of the term ‘social justice,’ I think of a societal belief in fairness."
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Jing-Feng LeeAs Interviewed by Judy Shan
"…Though the Japanese have left, I still have many wonderful memories from that time [the time period under Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan], and I will never forget them."
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Pascal BaredsteAs Interviewed by Stephen T.
"We had the right to not be killed, and that was it...
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Lauren MartinAs Interviewed by Isabella Ricci
"The fence is absolutely devastating to border communities."
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Kari McDonaldAs Interviewed by Hoyt Taylor
"Not that I’m less of a person, but that the world views me as less of a person, and that feels, to some degree, disenfranchised, not as relevant to the human race.
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Sal LopezAs Interviewed by Will Savage
"No-one has slushied me."
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Sonia GlazerAs Interviewed by Jonathan Sadun
"On September 1, 1939, the Russians walked into our city."
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Robert RileyAs Interviewed by Isaac Metcalf
"It was a sort of spiritual victory just to be accepted into their cause, and to help earn them rights they should have had before."
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Molly HornbuckleAs Interviewed by Zion Kim
"Discrimination really is, to me, about a lack of power. Not just politically or legislatively and government, but it is that feeling that an individual has that they don’t have as much power as others to affect change and to make their life or their family’s life better."
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Marvin B. LevyAs Interviewed by Jesse Levy-Rubinett
"It had a very deep impact on me and made me angrier and more determined to do whatever I could to work for and support the civil rights movement."
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Rebecca HerreraAs Interviewed by Rachael Ellisor
"If you're determined and you want to do something, you can do it."
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Jacq BachmanAs Interviewed by Ryan C.
"I’m giving an older lady a seat -- my seat -- as I was taught to do."
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Andy CampbellAs Interviewed by Rebekah Albach
"As a citizen of Texas, I feel that Texas itself is doing poorly in terms of making gay people equal to all other people, and trans people equal to all others."
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Fang-Wen HuangAs Interviewed by Justin Chen
"When I help people, I feel so blessed, lucky and joyful, because I am not the one in need of help, i am the one helping them."
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Steven A. BetheaAs Interviewed by Isaac Bethea
"And some of the things that Richard Nixon was saying about the war were untrue, and I knew for a fact they were untrue."
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Mary Ann M.As Interviewed by J.W.
"Side by side, they [whites and blacks] integrated for the freedom of our country…"
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Sarah WeddingtonAs Interviewed by Augie Stromberger
"TIME magazine, in 2003, named the 80 people who had changed the world. Of those, 10 were women. I was one, Rosa Parks was one—if you think about what she did, she refused to give up her seat on the bus. So, there are a lot of things you wouldn’t think of as being a real asset to social justice—hers was right time, right place, her age, the awareness that already been established of some of the problems."
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Joe K. LongleyAs Interviewed by Jonah Smith
"The schools that I went to only white kids could attend them… I had a lot of Hispanic friends as well as African-American friends."
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Ola Davis BrownAs Interviewed by Anwen Pope
"...they had to give you respect because it was the law, plus you earned it.
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Isela FernandezAs Interviewed by Efrain Garduno
"In Mexico, that problem is very big, because the people see you as a different person."
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Kit SeayAs Interviewed by Lucas Ogden
"I have always believed that people are created equally…"
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Patricia RobertsonAs Interviewed by Gil Johnson
"If I had lived in the North, I might have had a different experience."
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Richard Bernard FarrerAs Interviewed by Dylan Johns
"Apartheid is a source of shame for many, many South Africans, and it was a source of shame for me as well."
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Susan MaddoxAs Interviewed by Samuel Beckett
"I knew exactly what I thought, and there wasn’t anything that could have unconvinced me."
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Mildred and James JonesAs Interviewed by Briana Brown
"When I was growing up, I never had a white friend or knew any white people."
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Susie Sansom PiperAs Interviewed by Jack Dobson
"I taught in Rockdale for 41 years."
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Frieda BorthAs Interviewed by Interviewed by I.C.
"That’s just the way it was.
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Cherrie HovisAs Interviewed by Julian Clubb
"I went to a segregated school when I was younger, we didn’t have any blacks in the town."
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Adaeze (Nne) EzekoyeAs Interviewed by Ify Ezekoye
"Igbos have been stigmatized and marginalized. The big social injustice is that to this day, Igbo people are not properly characterized -- only as troublemakers, based off of ethnicity."
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Duke NgoAs Interviewed by Nithin Richard
"When you would play in the street, you would see lots of soldiers and tanks and a lot of people exchanging money."
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As Interviewed by Leah PinneyNidhi K.
"Learning how to transform stress into energy makes it a powerful motivator."
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Lauren Stevenson YacinaAs Interviewed by Nick Schatz
"That meanness has such a big impact that has lasted my whole life."
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Thomas SchatzAs Interviewed by Noah Schatz
"The Vietnam War caused tremendous tension at home, within families, within communities, far, far more than you can imagine or that is going on now in the current unfortunate military enterprise."
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Wilfredo Martinez LopezAs Interviewed by Gabriel H.
"Turn the other cheek."
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Michael GarciaAs Interviewed by Niels K.
"I assumed that everyone, when they went to a restaurant, they always ordered water and the cheapest thing off the menu; they didn’t order what they want."
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Raul G. LiendoAs Interviewed by Katherine J.
"I would always question that."
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Dennis ColemanAs Interviewed by Daniel Lee
"I’m African-American, so I grew up in a family that has a history of understanding the discrimination based on race, and so I think it was more than just my faith, I think it was more of the history of my family in fighting injustice."
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Carlos PenadaAs Interviewed by Clara F.
"They left in 1960, originally in hopes to come back very soon, but that never occurred."
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Chris ChristineAs Interviewed by Pia Deshpande
"GI is a term that means General Issue. The equipment in the military was general issue so a soldier was also General Issue."
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George LongoriaAs Interviewed by N.B.
"I was different, and I felt different about different people..."
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Christine BunceAs Interviewed by Bridget C.
"I think there is unfortunately something about human nature that we feel safest when we are with people that are like us... and it’s just harder to make room for people that are different."
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Richard WagnerAs Interviewed by Chico Wagner
"You could hurt a man more by taking his girlfriend away from him than by shooting him or hitting him with a bat."
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Carmen S.As Interviewed by Corin Wagen
"I call myself a survivor, and no one can take that away from me."
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Marisol A.As Interviewed by Marisol Sobek
"We're still working on it, people’s ignorance. We'll get there one day."
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Bijan MasumianAs Interviewed by Nicky Nair
"The Baha’i faith is considered a heresy by the current Iranian government.
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Gerarda KoehneAs Interviewed by Victoria M.
"So, what used to be good about being a mother, seemed to everyone to be outdated and out of step with women’s freedom. I felt like life really became upside down..."
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Rekha DesaiAs Interviewed by Sesha McMinn
"When my teacher asked who wanted to go to the college, and I raised my hand, I was perceived like a fool.
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David MatustikAs Interviewed by William Goodwin
"When people see homelessness, they don’t see a person’s face."
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Neelima MangabuttulaAs Interviewed by Sweta Ganta
"There is no distance, or situation too great between best friends."
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Vanja CorovicAs Interviewed by Etienne D.
"It’s all about money. If you don't have money, you are nobody."
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Henry ZeybelAs Interviewed by Ben Brown
"So I was pretty much in favor of prosecuting war against our enemies as the president saw it. So I was brain washed to follow the leader."
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John AttigAs Interviewed by Anthony Clemens
"I know a black man who was almost lynched when he was 12."
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Giovanna MarabiniAs Interviewed by Chiara Alvisi
"I can tell you for sure that the war took away my childhood."
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Ellen L.As Interviewed by A.B.
"They were just totally unprepared..."
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Pamela McDonaldAs Interviewed by Erin McDonald
"I think it’s important that workers have some power and even government workers need some power because otherwise they can get abused and taken advantage of."
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Jonathan MurrAs Interviewed by Spencer Christian
"A life lived in struggle is actually meaningful and worthwhile in and of itself."
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Sonia EllAs Interviewed by Josh Geeslin
"I have always felt that I need to keep my religion, my belief, and to be proud of my ethnicity and who I am."
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Chuck SmithAs Interviewed by David Han
"There’s been lots of progress."
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Boonkrua PunyahotraAs Interviewed by Ink D.
"We had never been trained to hide in bombing shelter. Instead we headed toward rice paddies, sewer lines.
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Juan GonzalesAs Interviewed by Chris B.
"I think that it’s imperative for young people to discuss the past so that they can make the future a whole lot brighter."
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Sylvia HerreraAs Interviewed by Xavier Herrera Jr.
"Every person counts. We have to recognize and reconnect to our humanity. We have to learn to treat each other with that kindness and respect that everyone deserves.
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Ira IscoeAs Interviewed by Adam Iscoe
"Being white didn’t mean that you were safe against prejudices and stuff."
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Grazyna PyrekAs Interviewed by Daniel Pyrek
"That is why we did what we did."
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