Anna Julia Cooper

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

A race cannot be purified from without.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.