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Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes


An American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D.
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Here are some famous quotes by Mary McLeod Bethune.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

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Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.

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

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Without faith 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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From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

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

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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.

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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.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

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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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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 of my resources. I had faith in a living God faith in myself and a desire to serve.