Mary Church Terrell: 15 Movie Quotes with Audio

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1 I believe that once one accepts discrimination against another, he's preparing the way for his own slavery. I intend to remain free.

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2 I learned that no women can live free and equal by standing silently by while huge sections of the human race were slandered and made second-class citizens.

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3 The warmth I thought I'd felt in the southern air turned thick and humid and unfriendly. And the party turned into a wake.

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4 Then, father, I think hereafter I'll devote my life to being 'out of place,' to convincing most people that only when woman stands with man and demands full rights for all is she really in her place.

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5 I do understand. There's nothing new about discrimination.

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6 And since when have women with backbone allowed men to dictate who they shall hear and who they shan't? Since when?

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7 Women! Since when have we needed cowards in bed sheets and masks and shotguns to safeguard our persons and our homes?

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8 For once a white woman bows down before white masculinism, she is ready for slavery!

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9 I would not 'step aside.' True, I was an old woman, but there were still fights for women to lead. There were still the fights for justice and equality and peace.

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10 Any institution should be ashamed to discriminate against any woman.

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