Carolina Quotes"I am my Sister's keeper!" should be the hearty response of every man and woman of the race, and this conviction should purify and exalt the narrow, selfish and petty personal aims of life into a noble and sacred purpose.
Anna J. Cooper Carolinian
Source
p. 32
- work
- A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892)
- year
- 1892
- locator
- p. 32
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“"I am my Sister's keeper!" should be the hearty response of …” Anna J. Cooper. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-8B1D5C4304. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/8b1d5c4304
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To me, faith means treating the truth as true.
You will not find science annihilating personality from the government of the Universe and making of God an ungovernable, unintelligible, blind, often destructive physical force; you will not find jurisprudence formulating as an axiom the absurdity that man and wife are one, and that one the man—that the married woman may not hold or bequeath her own property save as subject to her husband's direction; you will not find political economists declaring that the only possible adjustment between laborers and capitalists is that of selfishness and rapacity—that each must get all he can and keep all that he gets, while the world cries laissez faire and the lawyers explain, "it is the beautiful working of the law of supply and demand;" in fine, you will not find the law of love shut out from the affairs of men after the feminine half of the world’s truth is completed.
We too often mistake individuals’ honor for race development and so are ready to substitute pretty accomplishments for sound sense and earnest purpose.