Anna Cooper Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

7 Famous Quotes by Anna Cooper
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“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.”
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“I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.”
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“Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”
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“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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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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