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.

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  Equality, Ties, Diversity

  Pauli Murray (2006). “Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings”

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• Hope is a song in a weary throat.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Song

  Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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• One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

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  Typewriters, Movement, Plus

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

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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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  Sex, Black, Crow

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

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  Endeavor, Ability, Exceptional

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

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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.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Impact, Tragedy

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