Sojourner Truth quote: "There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before."

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white m...
JOHN LEWIS

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport i...
ROSA PARKS

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.
NEIL GAIMAN

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the w...
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the wa...
SOJOURNER TRUTH

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until th...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of thei...
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af...
SUE MONK KIDD

Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely ri...
EMMELINE PANKHURST

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The moment I defend I am colored woman , is the moment that I have colored my defense.
SUSIE L HILL

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respe...
NAT KING COLE

Under a Colored Cap
SEAN O'CASEY

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.
TIM FARGO

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
HENRY JAMES

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
DONALD SADOWAY

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
E. W. HOWE

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold
ARISTOTLE

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anyth...
BOB FELLER

I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
USHER

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. The...
MOLLY IVINS

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.
OSCAR WILDE

applaud uncontrolled colored immigration.
DAVID IRVING

What we called ourselves in 1944 - colored or Negro - we don't do anymore. Where we are now is not w...
CHARLES FULLER

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew ...
CHARLOTTE ROGAN

Women were accustomed to making substantial efforts to please men, while men spent comparatively lit...
KATE COOPER

We want to be treated equally as the men. This is not just about women's tennis, but women all over ...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.
CRISS JAMI

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

It's really getting treated with skepticism. Investors have turned in their rose-colored glasses for...
DOUG KASS

Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the...
V.C. ANDREWS

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying ...
ERICA JONG

Our people are not going to allow their nuclear rights to be seized.
HASHEMI RAFSANJANI

‎...Looking for truth in pieces of colored paper only gets you the truth you can afford. (none)
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time...
HARRIET TUBMAN

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colore...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... ...
JOSEPHINE BAKER

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN ANTHONY

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA M. CHILD

The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.
SOURCE UNKNOWN

The possibility of different colored shirts is there. Whether it is white, black or gold there could...
JOEL RASMUS

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseba...
BOB FELLER

They look like multi-colored discs of glass.
CALVIN GRANDY

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obse...
BARBRA STREISAND

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts up...
TERENCE

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white ...
HIRAM RHODES REVELS

Their minds are colored by emotional attachment to Maya, because of this emotional attachment, they ...
GURU NANAK

Men and women, women and men; it will never work.
ERICA JONG

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
ERICA JONG

Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
ERICA JONG

I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, bu...
HUMA ABEDIN

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.
REGINALD ROSE

The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses...
SYLVIA PLATH

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been ...
ANGELINA GRIMKE

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
MADELEINE M. KUNIN

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace an...
GERMAINE GREER

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conque...
NTOZAKE SHANGE

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.
RAY SANTIAGO

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their ...
JAMES STEPHENS

Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...
TONI MORRISON

Don't watch the film with 'colored glasses' and it's a very touching love story.
ANG LEE

Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA

If the jury is looking at it through the plaintiff's rose-colored glasses, then the emotional testim...
CHIP BABCOCK

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

It confirmed everything I had read about the colored fair in terms of the size of the crowd. For me,...
GERALD SMITH

That's a human error. He should have colored the other side. It was the right side of the face and n...
LYDIA SALDANA

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand...
JOSEPHINE BAKER

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, tho...
BETTE DAVIS

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious
ALPHONSE KARR

How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of...
EMMELINE PANKHURST

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it
EMMELINE PANKHURST

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
LENNY KRAVITZ

Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.
KAY INGRAM

One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to wo...
JACOB EPSTEIN

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can b...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Second letter from Mom:
So! What if you colored the world? This still does not seem a great thi...
ELENA D. CALIN

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shad...
PEARL S. BUCK

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow i...
PEARL S. BUCK

He said now you're gonna have colored baby chicks aren't you?. He made it a point to come get 'em. M...
KAY JOHNSTON

If a bird had a big, strange-colored beak, the other birds would investigate it or be scared. We nee...
PILAR FISH

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,And colored with the heaven's own blue. . . .
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

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There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

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