"... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount."

--

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

Mary Church Terrell

#People Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Matter Quotes

“You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly canâ€™t expect years and years of it.”
“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
“They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land.”
“Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.”
“I'm sure that a U.S. citizen, if I try to sing in English, he can feel that I'm not really sincere, there is something wrong. And I'm sure that even in French, they could feel the sincerity more than in English.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.”
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”
“God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.”

You may also like:

Alice Paul
Activist
Anna Julia Cooper
Author
Booker T. Washington
Educator
Frances Harper
Poet
Ida B. Wells
Journalist
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Publisher
Mary McLeod Bethune
Educator
Mother Jones
Union organizer
Sojourner Truth
Activist