Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes - Page 2

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• Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspiring, Art, Artist

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• When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Learning, Men, White Man

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• I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Time, Memorable, Steps

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• From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Education, Learning, Littles

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• For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

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  Inspirational, Mother, Daughter

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• I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Reading, Writing, White

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• I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

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  Nature, Morning, Purple

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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

  Courage, Determination, Vision

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• I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Dream, Able, Helping

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• Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Greatness, Social, Accidents

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• Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Men, White Man, Black

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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

  Inspirational, Time, Women

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• You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Dark, White, Long

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• [To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Son, Racism, Giving

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