gender equality 8
- Scholarships should be founded for self-supporting young women to balance the aid given to theology students
- Men of her race seem to fall back on sixteenth-century logic on the woman question
Anna Julia Cooper
African-American educator and writer (1858 to 1964); author of A Voice from the South.
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What Anna Julia Cooper says most about
racism 5
- Where the Black woman enters with undisputed dignity, the whole race enters with her
- Most so-called color prejudice is sentiment shaped by the association of ideas, not prejudice against color
America 3
- American politics is hardly a school for great minds
- The nation's debt to Black Americans is as real as its debt to its pensioners
empathy 2
- A Black writer is needed to portray Black life truly, and white people from a Black standpoint
- Black men cannot be expected to speak fully for Black women
religion 2
- Agnosticism has nothing to give and urges people to stand on nothing
- Faith means treating the truth as true
writing 2
- Art written for its own sake will outlast writing done to prove a point
- A Black writer is needed to portray Black life truly, and white people from a Black standpoint