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Anna Julia Cooper

"If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better."

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"If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

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"Produce great men, the rest follows."

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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

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"Life must be something more than dilettante speculation."
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"Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey."
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"Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too."
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"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. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice."
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"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."
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"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him."
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"Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy."
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"A race cannot be purified from without."
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"One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God."
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"The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart."
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