The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education… The three R's, a littlemusic… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs. — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice,… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share
