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
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
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…
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…
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 …
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.
It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great. - Mary Church Terrell
It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.
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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