... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's,… — 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… — 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… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red,… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will… — 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