"The whole world opened to me when I…" — Mary McLeod Bethune
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
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35 Quotes by Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune has 35 quotes on this site.
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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is…
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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…
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
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Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full…
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What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
— Louis Armstrong
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
— Pearl Bailey
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
— Ella Baker
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
— James A. Baldwin
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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