Anna Julia Cooper Quotes
Woman's cause is one and universal.
Cooper, Anna Julia. A Voice from the South. The Aldine Printing House, 1892, p. 121.
This quotation illustrates the statement of a reform principle to appease international interests in basic human rights. This type of statement provides the “fig leaf” for the UN and other organizations to pretend that international standards of human rights are being maintained. Nasser did not implement this principle. By the beginning of the 21st century, Egypt was finally making some progress on women’s equality issues. The prohibition on female members of Parliament—{586723}—had been reversed but women were still not allowed to be judges in a criminal trial, laws against infant female circumcision, and other elements of female equality were still not in existence.
She was overly optimistic. She would be dead for 30 years before women got the vote and some would argue that full equality has not been reached yet.
She was in China as a delegate to the international congress and not in an official capacity as a representative and First Lady of the United States. Nonetheless, such implied criticism of the Chinese leadership in their own capital.
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
