"Even if I believed that women should be denied the right of suffrage, wild horses could not drag such an admission from my pen or my lips... Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) “What could be more absurd and ridiculous than that one group of individuals who are trying to throw off the yoke of oppression themselves, so as to get relief from conditions which handicap and injure them should favor laws and customs which impede the progress of another unfortunate group and hinder them in every conceivable way. For the sake of consistency, therefore, if my sense of justice were not developed at all, and I could not reason intelligently, as a colored woman, I should not tell my dearest friend that I opposed woman suffrage.”