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If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

Anna Julia Cooper

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Anna Julia Cooper
Age: 105 †
Born: 1858
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: February 27
Educator
Historian
Political Theorist
Suffragist
Writer
Raleigh
North Carolina
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
Anna Julia Cooper
Black woman of the South
Anna Julia Haywood
Men
Doe
Vaunted
People
Give
Monarchies
Women
Nobler
Better
Breed
Done
Monarchy
Must
Inevitably
Giving
Rule
Something
Place

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