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Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow.... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

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Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

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What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

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This society is not hospitable to persons of color, women or left-handed people.

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I have accepted the challenge of being a Negro in America and of being an American first.

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Pauli Murray

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Born: November 20, 1910
Died: July 1, 1985 (aged 74)
Bio: Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray was an American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, and author.
Known for:
  1. Proud Shoes the Story of an American Family (1956)
  2. Pauli Murray
  3. States' laws on race and color (1950)
  4. Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware

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