Famous quotes containing the words anna julia cooper, julia cooper, julia and/or 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. Nay, tis womans strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three Rs, a little music 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.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffaloslow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.”
—Bernard Cooper (b. 1936)