Mary McLeod Bethune was a famous educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, and civil rights activist.
Best Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes
Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
For I am my mother’s daughter. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
We live in a world which respects power above all things. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Studying goes deeper than mere reading. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. – Mary McLeod Bethune.
We should, therefore, protest openly everything … that smacks of discrimination or slander. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Inspiring Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
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. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
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.
What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
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. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Top Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Education is the great American adventure, the world’s most colossal democratic experiment. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
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. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Popular Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
I leave you love. I leave you hope. – Mary McLeod Bethune.
Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
I made up my mind, I would know my letters. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Famous Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes
Forgiving is not about forgetting, it’s letting go of the hurt. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
Enter to learn; depart to serve. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
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. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune.
So these were the 45 top Mary McLeod Bethune quotes and sayings on education and equality.
