I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no…

Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

Topics: Freedom Quotes, Victory Quotes

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...

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...

A race cannot be purified from without.

A race cannot be purified from without.

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....

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...

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...

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

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...

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him,...

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him,...

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...

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice...

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice...

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is...

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is...

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the...

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the...

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the...

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the...

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic...

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic...

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance;...

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance;...

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men...

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men...

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to...

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to...