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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.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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Mary McLeod Bethune
Age: 79 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 10
Died: 1955
Died: May 18
Educator
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Politician
Suffragist
Teacher
Writer
Mayesville
South Carolina
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
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Enter to learn depart to serve.
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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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I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.
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A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.
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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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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.
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Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt
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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 can be a dreadful, destructive force.
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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 dollars, or a job!
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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
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Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.
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I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.
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In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.
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World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
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When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
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