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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/the-elective-franchise-is-withheld-from-one-half-of-its-citizens/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/some-people-cannot-bear-the-truth-no-matter-how-tactfully-it-is-told/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

> [To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/to-the-lack-of-incentive-to-effort-which-is-the-awful-shadow-under/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/surely-nowhere-in-the-world-do-oppression-and-persecution-based/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/and-so-lifting-as-we-climb-onward-and-upward-we-go-struggling-and/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/no-one-color-can-describe-the-various-and-varied-complexions-in-our/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/and-so-lifting-as-we-climb-onward-and-upward-we-go-struggling-and-2/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/seeing-their-children-touched-and-seared-and-wounded-by-race/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/stop-using-the-word-negro-the-word-is-a-misnomer-from-every-point-of/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

> [It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/it-is-only-through-the-home-that-a-people-can-become-really-good-and/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 acrobatics, has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/the-elective-franchise-is-withheld-from-one-half-of-its-citizens/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

> [... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/no-young-colored-person-in-the-united-states-today-can-truthfully/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

> [“As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/as-the-brains-of-colored-women-expanded-their-hearts-began-to-grow-no/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

> [I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/i-cannot-help-wondering-sometimes-what-i-might-have-become-and-might/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

> [Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/nobody-wants-to-know-a-colored-woman-s-opinion-about-her-own-status/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

> [While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/while-most-girls-run-away-from-home-to-marry-i-ran-away-to-teach/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

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