"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 seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for our civilization. She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem ..."

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.112, Rowman & Littlefield

Anna Julia Cooper

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“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”
“By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.”
“Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.”
“Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.”
“I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.”
“The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.”

Source : "Holism and Evolution". Book by Jan Smuts, p. 337, 1926.
“Saints cannot exist without a community”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas, John Swinton (2004). “Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology”, p.74, Routledge
“The greatest fighter I ever saw”

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