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Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is the...
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is...
I plunged into...
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing . . . Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money...
Invest in the...
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Source: In...
The true worth...
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
If our people...
If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of...
When they...
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas . . . Whatever the white man has...
The drums of...
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl...
There is a...
There is a place in God's sun for the youth farthest down who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to...
I never stop...
I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.
Source: Faith That Moved a Dump...
If we have...
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we...
Knowledge is the...
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Source: My Last Will and Testament, in...
Next to God...
Next to God we are indebted
to women, first for life itself,
and then for making it
worth...
Cease to be...
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....
From the first,...
From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
Whatever glory belongs...
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full...