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 of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.
... 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
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…
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.
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.
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…
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 …
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.
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