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Sojourner Truth Quote

“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” Sojourner Truth

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote

“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 … Continue reading

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote

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

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote

“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.“ Anna Julia Cooper

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote

“The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for … Continue reading

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote

“Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.” Anna Julia Cooper

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote

“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 … Continue reading

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote

“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or sect, a party or a class— it is the cause of humankind, the birthright of humanity” Anna Julia Cooper

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