Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

- Anna Julia Cooper

The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status se…

- Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

- Anna Julia Cooper

Only 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…

- Anna Julia Cooper

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

- Anna Julia Cooper

I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms …

- Anna Julia Cooper

I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tear…

- Anna Julia Cooper

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnatura…

- Anna Julia Cooper

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v.…

- Anna Julia Cooper