49 Quotes by Anna Julia Cooper

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day – respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development – begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself – it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun...

No man can prophesy with another’s parable.