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Woman's Cause Is One And Universal.
-Anna Julia Cooper
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Woman's Cause Is One And Universal.
Anna Julia Cooper
Woman's Cause Is One And Universal.
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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.
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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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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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... [a] Girl One Day Flared Out And Told The Principal "the Only Mission Opening Before A Girl In His School Was To Marry One Of Those Candidates [for The Ministry]." He Said He Didn't Know But It Was. And When At Last That Same Girl Announced Her Desire And Intention To Go To College It Was Received With About The Same Incredulity And Dismay As If A Brass Button On One Of Those Candidate's Coats Had Propounded A New Method For Squaring The Circle Or Trisecting The Arc.
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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 Tears, And It Is There Too That The Colored Woman Of America Has Made Her Characteristic History And There Her Destiny Is Evolving.
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