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
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- And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the...
- And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the...
- While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.
- Stop using the word ‘Negro.’ The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not...
- 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...
- … some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty,...
- The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens…because the word ‘people,’ by an unparalleled exhibition...
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