Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Pauli Murray

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Pauli Murray.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 she became one of the first women—and the first African-American woman—to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.

American - Activist | November 20, 1910 - July 1, 1985

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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

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

Pauli Murray

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

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

Pauli Murray

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

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

Pauli Murray

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Pauli Murray

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