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When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

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Mary Church Terrell

Stop using the word 'Negro. ' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else. . . I am an African-American.

African American, Country, Negro, Represent, Stop, Views
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And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope. Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.

Born, Buds, Lifting, Past, Responsibility, Struggle

A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. . . . Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.

Country, Group, Men, Sex, White

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

Ere, Glorious, Hoping, Long, Onward And Upward, Struggle

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.

Allowed, Country, Done, Lived, Race

Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial. ' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

Black, Controversial, Dares, Nobody, Sound, Two
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