Best Quotes by Mary McLeod Bethune (Top 10)
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We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
More Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes
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There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
Mary McLeod Bethune