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From Quotes by Anna Julia Cooper
- 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…
- I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
- A race cannot be purified from without.
- One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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