Anna Julia Cooper

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

— Anna Julia Cooper

#bullies #cowards #credited #heart #instinct

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. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#cause #freedom #human #humanity #kind

A race cannot be purified from without. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#purified #race #without

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#convinces #exhortations #impart #nothing #sermons

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

— Anna Julia Cooper

#any #constantly #felt #girl #i

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#breed #does #done #give #inevitably

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#life #more #must #something #speculation

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#nothing #unworthy #wholly

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#gone #heart #her #indolent #inspire