The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the f… - Mary Church Terrell
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the f…
- Mary Church Terrell
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital o… - Mary Church Terrell
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital o…
No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of… - Mary Church Terrell
No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of…
A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored … - Mary Church Terrell
A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored …
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear. - Mary Church Terrell
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-Am… - Mary Church Terrell
Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-Am…
The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acro… - Mary Church Terrell
The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acro…
While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach. - Mary Church Terrell
While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into g… - Mary Church Terrell
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into g…
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