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Top 25 Anna Julia Cooper Quotes (2025 Update)

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”

1. “Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “A stream cannot rise higher than its source.”

2. “A stream cannot rise higher than its source.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.”

3. “I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”

4. “Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

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.”

5. “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

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

6. “Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.”

7. “Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class – it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”

8. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class – it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

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 the world needs to hear her voice.”

9. “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.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “A race cannot be purified from without.”

12. “A race cannot be purified from without.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.”

13. “One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “The cause of freedom is not the...”

14. “The cause of freedom is not the...”

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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 domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.”

15. “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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Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.”

16. “If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.”

18. “Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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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.”

20. “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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Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “No man can prophesy with another’s parable.”

22. “No man can prophesy with another’s parable.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun...”

23. “With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun...”

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Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper Quote: “As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.”

25. “As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.”

— Anna Julia Cooper

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