"I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might……" — 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 circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain."
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And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and…
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Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women…
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Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful…
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And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and…
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