“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… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share
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 Copy Share
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done,… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share
[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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share
