Carolina QuotesOur 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.
Anna J. Cooper Carolinian
Source
p. 53
- work
- A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892)
- year
- 1892
- locator
- p. 53
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“Our God is power; strength, our standard of excellence, inhe…” Anna J. Cooper. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-F061E7863C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/f061e7863c
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