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Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black Liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her PhD in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924, Cooper became the fourth African-American woman to earn a doctoral degree. She was also a prominent member of Washington, D.C.'s African-American community and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

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. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Ideas, Imagine, Oratory, Quiet, Women

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Hear, Needs, Passion, Stand, Voice, Voices

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

Agnostic, Despair, Grand, Hisfellows, Principles, Taken

I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

Ceremonies, Giving, Logic, Men, Religious, Traditional

. . . the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education. . . . The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

Dancing, Littlemusic, Men, Tact, Thinking, Three

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 even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Intelligent, Men, Voice, Hear, Ignorant, Black

It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.

Characterizations, Estimates, Giving, Handed, Majority, Voice

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, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

Country, Link, Oneness, Race, Sex, Stand

A race cannot be purified from without.

Purified, Race

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. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

Heart, Inspire, Life, Men, Woman, Wretched

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Natural, Nothing, Unworthy, Wholly

. . . [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]. " He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

Announced, College, Girl, Mission, Same, School

If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.

Apple, Apples, Education, Permitted, Sewing, Women

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Dilettante, Dilettantes, Life, Speculation

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

Age, Ages, Elect, Fear, Mean, Men

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 to something better.

Giving, Men, Monarchies, People, Rule

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

Bullies, Bullying, Credited, Heart, Safety

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 too.

Agnostic, Convince, Convinces, Impart, Stand, Urges

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Efficient, Girl, Girls, Needs, Race, Special

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 with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.

Blacks, Blood, Characteristic, Country, Destiny, Evolving

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