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 Copy Share Image
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great. — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
“As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach. — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
