In an under-appreciated speech in 1906, Mary Church Terrell explained exactly why the nation's capital should not be known as "The Colored Man's Paradise."
"It is impossible for any white person in the United States, no matter how sympathetic and broad, to realize what life would mean to him if his incentive to effort were suddenly snatched away."
"A true California house, sun-kissed, dream-soaked, and built with the sweat of honest work. We will not have one house for the rich and one for the poor, or one for the native-born and one for the rest."
