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Anna Julia Cooper Quotes

«Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.»
«I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.»
«One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.»
«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, the very birthright of humanity.»
«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.»
«. . . 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.»
«It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's Problem, this Voice by a Black Woman of the South will not have been raised in vain.»