Carolina Quotes
Because if you rip away everything, the business of oppression is the business of not respecting one's personhood. People may be as poor as churchmice, as you have seen in Africa, the man who has only one cloth to wear on a Sunday walks with great dignity because he has a sense of his own person.
Pauli Murray Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Genna Rae McNeil, February 13, 1976; Southern Oral History Program, Interview G-0044, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Pauli Murray, Interview G-0044
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- 1976
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