Anna Julia Cooper

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    A race cannot be purified from without.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    ... 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.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    ... 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.
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)