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American civil rights activist, Birth: 20-11-1910
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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

'Genuine fellowship is grounded in parity, interdependence, and interchange. It acknowledges the profundity of individual divergence while additionally recognizing the shared humane connections that unite us.'
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Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Pauli Murray

3.
What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.
Pauli Murray

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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.
Pauli Murray

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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

Similar Authors: Rosa Parks Unita Blackwell Ruby Bridges Victoria Gray Adams Jonathan Daniels Wyatt Tee Walker
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One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.
Pauli Murray