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This right to grow is sacred and inviolable.
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“This right to grow is sacred and inviolable.”

Anna Julia Cooper

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Address Accepting Her Diploma From the Sorbonne
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1925
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Meaning of “This right to grow is sacred and inviolable.”

Cooper treats a person’s opportunity for intellectual and human development as a fundamental right rather than a privilege that institutions may arbitrarily restrict.

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Address Accepting Her Diploma From the Sorbonne, University of Paris, December 29, 1925, preserved by Howard University. The row therefore remains formally frozen in HOST_REVIEW rather than receiving an inferred locator.

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Address Accepting Her Diploma From the Sorbonne, 1925. The educational-rights phrase is preserved in scholarship tied to Cooper’s Howard ceremony and is anchored to Howard University’s digitized primary item.

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