The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
... [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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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