Charlotta Bass

Quotes

• “Included in Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner (1972)”
• “For the first time in the history of this nation a political party has chosen a Negro woman for the second highest office in the land. It is a great honor to be chosen as a pioneer, and a great responsibility.”
• “I am a Negro woman. My people came before the Mayflower.”
• “I am more concerned with what is happening to my people in my country than war. We have lived through two wars and seen their promises turn to bitter ashes.”
• “To retire meant to leave this world to these people who carried oppression to Africa, to Asia, who made profits from oppression in my own land. To retire meant to leave the field to evil.”
• “This is what we fight against. We fight to live. We want the $65 billion that goes for death to go to build a new life. Those billions could lift the wages of my people, give them jobs, give education and training and new hope to our youth, free our sharecroppers, build new hospitals and medical centers. The $8 billion being spent to rearm Europe and crush Asia could rehouse all my people living in the ghettos of Chicago and New York and every large city in the nation.”

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Charlotta Bass, from her high school class photo, Providence, Rhode Island, ca. 1900. (scl-mss064-0009~1) (cropped).jpg

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