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Pauli Murray Quotes

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

Pauli Murray
Equality, Ties, Diversity
Pauli Murray (2006). “Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings”

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

Pauli Murray
Inspirational, Hope, Song
Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

Pauli Murray
Typewriters, Movement, Plus
Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins

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.

Pauli Murray
Sex, Black, Crow

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

Pauli Murray
Endeavor, Ability, Exceptional
Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins

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.

Pauli Murray
Art, Impact, Tragedy

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