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Mary McLeod Bethune has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
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The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
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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…
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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…
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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
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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…
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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…
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
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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…
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Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
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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…
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It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow…
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Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
— Cole Porter
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An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of…
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again,…
— Edward Abbey
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Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety
— Woody Allen
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
— Yip Harburg
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A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.
— Edwin Way Teale
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.
— Charles Bukowski
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The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe…
— John Townsend Trowbridge
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When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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