Carolina QuotesLet us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it--not the boys less, but the girls more.
Anna J. Cooper
Carolinian
Source
A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: Aldine, 1892); Documenting the American South, UNC
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- A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South
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- 1892
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“Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve …” Anna J. Cooper. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-0C0967EF34. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/0c0967ef34
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To me, faith means treating the truth as true.
The earnest well trained Christian young woman, as a teacher, as a home-maker, as wife, mother, or silent influence even, is as potent a missionary agency among our people as is the theologian; and I claim that at the present stage of our development in the South she is even more important and necessary.
Our God is power; strength, our standard of excellence, inherited from barbarian ancestors through a long line of male progenitors, the Law Salic permitting no feminine modifications.