I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.
... 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
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…
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head - Mary Church Terrell
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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