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“The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.”

Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

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The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper is a compilation of significant works by the influential African American writer and thinker. It features her seminal essay 'A Voice from the South,' as well as other essays, papers, and letters that delve into issues of race, gender, and education during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection offers insights into Cooper's intellectual contributions and her role in the civil rights movement. more

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Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper was an American author, educator, and activist, a pioneering figure in the African American community. Known for her work in women's rights and education, she was a significant voice in the discussions on race and gender during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more

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Author:Anna Julia Cooper

“... 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.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.”

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Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“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.”

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Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

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Book:A Voice from the South

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