Auntie Quotes by Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

[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

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Enter to learn; depart to serve.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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

— Mary McLeod Bethune