Complexion Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Mary Church Terrell

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mary Church Terrell