What Anna Julia Cooper thinks about gender equality
African-American educator and writer (1858 to 1964); author of A Voice from the South.
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8 dated positions, c. 1892, in their own words. Our reading of what Anna Julia Cooper has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAt any rate, as our Caucasian barristers are not to blame if they cannot quite put themselves in the dark man’s place, neither should the dark man be wholly expected fully and adequately to reproduce the exact Voice of the Black Woman.
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Their wordsNow the fundamental agency under God in the regeneration, the re-training of the race, as well as the ground work and starting point of its progress upward, must be the black woman.
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Their wordsOnly the Black Woman can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
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Their wordsAll I claim is that there is a feminine as well as a masculine side to truth; that these are related not as inferior and superior, not as better and worse, not as weaker and stronger, but as complements—complements in one necessary and symmetric whole.
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Their wordsIt seems hardly a gracious thing to say, but it strikes me as true, that while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic.
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Their wordsTo be plain, I mean let money be raised and scholarships be founded in our colleges and universities for self-supporting, worthy young women, to offset and balance the aid that can always be found for boys who will take theology.
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Their wordsIt is not the intelligent woman vs. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman vs. the black, the brown, and the red,—it is not even the cause of woman vs. man. Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
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Our readingThe Black woman faces both a woman question and a race problem and is unacknowledged in both
Their wordsShe is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem, and is as yet an unknown or an unacknowledged factor in both.
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