Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost…

Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

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Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct...

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct...

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v....

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v....

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and...

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and...

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as...

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as...

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely...

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely...

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you...

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you...

A race cannot be purified from without.

A race cannot be purified from without.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a...

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a...

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than...

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than...