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.


A Colored Woman in a White World (1940)

Mary Church Terrell Quotes

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....

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....

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....

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....