Anna Julia Cooper

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

    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 (1859–1964)

    As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering his fellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    I assert that the first, and fundamental right of every woman is to be allowed the free exercise of her own belief; and that free exercise is not allowed when she is in any way restrained either morally or intellectually.
    —Margaret Anna Cusack (1829–1899)

    Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

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