"Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded……" — 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."
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Mary Church Terrell
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6 Quotes by Mary Church Terrell
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I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a…
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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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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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To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the…
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