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. Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract.

She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem ...”, “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 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.”, “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 women and the home life made by them Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.” -- 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 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.” -- 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 our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.” -- Anna Julia Cooper, “The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.” -- 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, “The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.114, Rowman & Littlefield, Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.339, Rowman & Littlefield, Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “A Voice from the South”, p.11, Courier Dover Publications. 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. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. “A Voice from the South”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications, Anna Julia Cooper (2016). Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. Discover Anna Julia Cooper famous and rare quotes. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.”, “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.”, “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.”, “The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. "The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters".

'” -- 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, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Teach them 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.” -- Anna Julia Cooper, “I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.” -- Anna Julia Cooper, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”, “Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”, “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 special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me. Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.107, Rowman & Littlefield, Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). ... 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 of irreproachable credos. #Men #People #Giving “Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.”-- Anna Julia Cooper .

In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for our civilization. Share with your friends. “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield, Anna Julia Cooper (1988). #Race “No man can prophesy with another's parable.”-- Anna Julia Cooper . And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.” -- 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 prigs.” -- Anna Julia Cooper, “A stream cannot rise higher than its source.” -- Anna Julia Cooper, “woman's cause is one and universal ...” -- Anna Julia Cooper, “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.” -- Anna Julia Cooper, “tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.”, “The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.”, “Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never.

Mary Helen Washington , Introduction to … "Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and..." She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. Share Anna Julia Cooper quotations about country, humanity and growth. 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. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. 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 special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'.