Which quotation from A Voice from the South most directly illustrates… | Verbal SAT Question

In her foundational 1892 treatise A Voice from the South, educator and theorist Anna Julia Cooper articulated a framework that modern scholars recognize as an early formulation of intersectionality. Cooper argued that Black women occupied a distinct structural position in American society that could not be adequately addressed by civil rights organizations focused exclusively on Black men or by suffrage movements led predominantly by white women.

Which quotation from A Voice from the South most directly illustrates Cooper’s intersectional argument?

“The colored woman of to-day occupies a unique position in this country... She is confronted by both a woman question and a race question, and is as yet an unacknowledged factor in both.”

“True progress must be measured by the educational advancement and moral elevation of the humblest classes in our communities.”

“No woman can truly understand the duties of higher citizenship without a thorough grounding in classical literature and philosophy.”

“Our institutions of higher learning must open their doors freely to all who exhibit the intellectual capacity to master advanced scientific disciplines.”