Mary Church Terrell Quotes

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

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

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.

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