Carolina QuotesThe idea of the radical amelioration of womankind, reverence for woman as woman regardless of rank, wealth, or culture, was to come from that rich and bounteous fountain from which flow all our liberal and universal ideas—the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Anna J. Cooper Carolinian
Source
p. 14
- work
- A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892)
- year
- 1892
- locator
- p. 14
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“The idea of the radical amelioration of womankind, reverence…” Anna J. Cooper. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-66CD81B821. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/66cd81b821
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