One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

Topics: Humanity Quotes, Interest Quotes, Passion Quotes

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

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....

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,...

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...

A race cannot be purified from without.

A race cannot be purified from without.

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.

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...

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...

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...