Quotes by Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper

… [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal “the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry].” He said he didn’t know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate’s coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

College

Girl

School

… the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education…. The three R’s, a littlemusic 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.

Dancing

Men

Thinking

… 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.

Ideas

Oratory

Quiet

A race cannot be purified from without.

Race

A stream cannot rise higher than its source.

Growth

Source

Streams

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Bullying

Heart

Safety

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Cost

Sap

Vices

Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

Country

Heart

Sharks

I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,–if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,–if it does not add to the world’s stock of valuable souls,–if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men–I will have none of it.

Giving

Men

Religious

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Ambitious

Girl

Unanswered Questions

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Apples

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College

Cost

Country

Dancing

Development

Dilettantes

Education

Frost

Girl

Giving

Growth

Heart

Heroism

Ideas

Mean

Men

Natural

Needs

Oratory

Parables

Passion

Quiet

Race

Religious

Rose

Sacrifice

Safety

Sap

School

Sharks

Source

Southern

Special

Speculation

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Thinking

Unanswered Questions

Unworthy

Uplifting

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Quotes by Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper

… 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.

A race cannot be purified from without.

A stream cannot rise higher than its source.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

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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