Anna Julia Cooper Quotes on Knowledge
Anna Julia Cooper was an American philosopher, educator, and one of the founding voices of African-American feminist thought, the fourth African-American woman to receive a doctorate of philosophy and a longtime principal of the M Street School in Washington, D.C. This page collects quotes attributed to Anna Julia Cooper on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
-
Attributed to Anna Julia Cooper:
“Education is the chief means by which the genuine elevation of a people is achieved.”
-
“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.”
p. 14 -
“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.”
p. 14 -
“When colored persons have been employed it was too often as machines or as manikins. There has been no disposition, generally, to get the black man's ideal or to let his individuality work by its own gravity.”
p. 37