Mary Church Terrell cytaty

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”

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Mary Church Terrell

“By a miracle the 19th amendment has been ratified, we women now have a weapon of defense ... it will be a shame to us if we do not use it … we shall give our enemies a stick with which to break our head, Hold meetings, every time you meet a woman talk to her about going to the polls and vote!”

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Źródło: p.310

“What a fine thing it would be if the North were as loyal to what it claims to be its principles as the South to its views?”

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Źródło: p. 290

“Colored people so seldom tell certain truths about conditions which confront their race that when they do, even white people who are interested in them feel that they must be “bitter.””

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p.175

“In the early 1890’s it required a great deal of courage for a woman to publicly to acknowledge before an audience that she believed in suffrage for her sex when she knew a majority did not.”

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Źródło: p.144

“I arose and said, As a colored woman, I hope this association will include in the resolution the injustices of various kinds of which colored people are the victims.”

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p. 143