“As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with knowledge than their hearts yearned to dispense blessings to the less fortunate of their race.” — 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 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… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share
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 will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share
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 ... I am an African-American. — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share
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
