It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's Problem, this Voice by a Black Woman of the South will not have been raised in vain.
Anna Julia Cooper
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.
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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
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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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Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.
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... 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.
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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.
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Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
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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.
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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 woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
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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.
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A race cannot be purified from without.
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