Higher Church

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or church:

    Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885)

    Please stop using the word “Negro.”... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.
    —Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)