Howard Describes

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    She does not realize that the only difference between us is that she is on one stage and I on another. I feel that I am acting just as much as she is.
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    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)