"The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean."

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Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.339, Rowman & Littlefield

Anna Julia Cooper

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“[he brend] gotta be with my fashion I gotta be comfortable with it and want to wear it more than anyone else. So that's really my main objective when it comes to that.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”

Source : "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.
“Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.”
“I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.
“My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.”
“Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.”

Source : "It’s Time for Hollywood to Act Like Diversity Matters" by Marc H. Morial, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2015.
“All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.”

Source : Gaylord Nelson, Susan M. Campbell, Paul A. Wozniak (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.18, Univ of Wisconsin Press
“That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.”

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