Famous quotes containing the words world and/or colored:
“If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)