We are the only human beings in the world with . . . 57 varieties of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.
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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
Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.
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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 flag, yawn wide and deep.
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While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.
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To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.
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