Anna Julia Cooper Quotes on Politics
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 politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Anna Julia Cooper:
“When and where I enter, in the quiet undisputed dignity of my womanhood, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
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Attributed to Anna Julia Cooper:
“Only the Black Woman can say where and when I enter.”
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Attributed to Anna Julia Cooper:
“The progress of any people is to be measured by the position of its women.”
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Attributed to Anna Julia Cooper:
“Education is the chief means by which the genuine elevation of a people is achieved.”
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“Our God is power; strength, our standard of excellence, inherited from barbarian ancestors through a long line of male progenitors, the Law Salic permitting no feminine modifications.”
p. 53