Quotation by Anna Julia Cooper

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As quoted in The Fair Women by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)A Voice from the South (1892)

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As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering his fellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964), U.S. educator and feminist. A Voice from the South, part 2 (1892).

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