Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes

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• Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

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  Believe, Self, World

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  We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

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  Courage, Powerful, Unlimited Potential

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

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  Destiny, Individuality, Tomorrow

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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.

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  Life, Faith, Peace

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

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  Peace, Power, Challenges

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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.

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  Peace, Responsibility, Racism

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• Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

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  Life, Women, Acceptance

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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.

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  Life, Faith, Jobs

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• In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.

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  Faith, Courage, Space

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• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

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  Inspirational, Determination, Commitment

  "Diamond in the Rough: More Fun Adventures with Abby Diamond". Book by Kristie Smith-Armand, July 2010.

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• Enter to learn; depart to serve.

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• Our children must never lose their zeal for
  building a better world.

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  Children, World, Building

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

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  Giving, Progress, World

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• To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

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  Jobs, Years, Decision

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• We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

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  Power, World, Force

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

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  Reading, Gold, Nuggets

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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.

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  Courage, Rocks, African American

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• The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

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  Inspirational, Education, Reading

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• Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

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  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Hurt

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• Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

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  Education, Learning, Adventure

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.108, Indiana University Press

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• World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

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  Race, Understanding, Brotherhood

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• The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

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  Women, Memorable, Character

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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

  Girl, Heart, Boys

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• Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

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  Change, Knowledge, Needs

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.

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  Real, Opportunity, Simple

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.23, Indiana University Press

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