Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind. I intend to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods(…) When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together. True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. A built-in hazard of an aggressive ethnocentric movement which disregards the interests of other disadvantaged groups is that it will become parochial and ultimately self-defeating in the face of hostile reactions, dwindling allies, and mounting frustrations…Only a broad movement for human rights can prevent the Black Revolution from becoming isolated and can insure ultimate success. The lesson of history that all human rights are indivisible and that the failure to adhere to this principle jeopardizes the rights of all is particularly applicable here. The year after she earned her Master of Divinity degree, she became the first African-American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. By September, she had resigned from Brandeis University and entered the General Theological Seminary.
In January 1973, Murray lost Barlow to cancer. What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor. One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement. If anyone should ask a Negro woman in America what has been her greatest achievement, her honest answer would be, ‘I survived!’ ~ Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray was a lawyer, women’s rights activist, and a novelist.ĭon’t get mad, get smart.
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