Anna Julia Cooper Quotes

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• Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there…
• Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of…
• Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
• I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil…
• Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or…
• We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our…
• The cause of freedom is not the...
• I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
• Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life,…
• The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on.…
• A race cannot be purified from without.
• Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
• If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place…
• Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and…
• Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
• One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
• It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not…
• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind,…
• I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit…

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