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Anna J. Cooper

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Also known as Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Anna Julia Cooper, Black woman of the South,, Anna Julia Haywood, Anna J Cooper

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)

Person · Open Library

Born
1858
Died
1964
Works
7

Top works

  • A Voice from the South
  • A Voice from the South
  • L'attitude de la France a l'égard de l'esclavage pendant la révolution ...
  • The voice of Anna Julia Cooper
  • A voice from the South

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Type
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Quotes

  • Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day—respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.
  • We too often mistake individuals’ honor for race development and so are ready to substitute pretty accomplishments for sound sense and earnest purpose.
  • "I am my Sister's keeper!" should be the hearty response of every man and woman of the race, and this conviction should purify and exalt the narrow, selfish and petty personal aims of life into a noble and sacred purpose.
  • When colored persons have been employed it was too often as machines or as manikins. There has been no disposition, generally, to get the black man's ideal or to let his individuality work by its own gravity.
  • Since the idea of order and subordination succumbed to barbarian brawn and brutality in the fifth century, the civilized world has been like a child brought up by his father. It has needed the great mother heart to teach it to be pitiful, to love mercy, to succor the weak and care for the lowly.
  • Our God is power; strength, our standard of excellence, inherited from barbarian ancestors through a long line of male progenitors, the Law Salic permitting no feminine modifications.

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