Anna Julia Cooper

... 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

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

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

— Anna Julia Cooper

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with…

— Anna Julia Cooper

A race cannot be purified from without.

— Anna Julia Cooper

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

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

— Anna Julia Cooper

... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman…

— Anna Julia Cooper

... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was…

— Anna Julia Cooper

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and…

— Anna Julia Cooper

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

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

— Anna Julia Cooper

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

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you…

— Anna Julia Cooper

A stream cannot rise higher than its source.

— Anna Julia Cooper

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is…

— Anna Julia Cooper

One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern…

— Anna Julia Cooper

The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or…

— Anna Julia Cooper

“Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the…

— Anna Julia Cooper

It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they…

— Anna Julia Cooper

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

— Anna Julia Cooper

The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and…

— Anna Julia Cooper

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