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Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

“Woman's cause is one and universal.”

Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

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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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“A stream cannot rise higher than its source.”

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Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.”

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Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.”

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Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.”

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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

“Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.”

Feels Wells Looks Girl

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.”

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Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.”

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“(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.”

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“People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.”

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“We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.”

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