Anna J. Cooper: Woman

Anna J. Cooper was African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar. Explore interesting quotes on woman.

Anna J. Cooper: 16 quotes1 like

“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.”

Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 32

“The idea of the radical amelioration of womankind, reverence for woman as woman regardless of rank, wealth, or culture, was to come from that rich and bounteous fountain from which flow all our liberal and universal ideas—the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 14

“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.”

Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 14