Colored

Colored

Colored is a term once widely used in the United States to refer to black people (i.e., persons of sub-Saharan African ancestry; members of the "black race") and Native Americans. It should not be confused with the more recent term people of color, which generally refers to all "non-white peoples".

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Famous quotes containing the word colored:

    “Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”
    —Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)

    “Here of a Sunday morning
    My love and I would lie,
    And see the colored counties,
    And hear the larks so high
    About us in the sky.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)