20 Quotes & Sayings By Mary Mcleod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in South Carolina. In 1901 she graduated from the Hampton Institute in Virginia. After graduating from college, Mary McLeod Bethune worked in a variety of jobs for six years, including being a teacher and a news reporter. She then became a student at Atlanta University in 1905 and attended the New England School of Social Science Read more

In 1911 she was hired as director of the North Carolina Negro Normal and Industrial School in Greensboro. Mary McLeod Bethune went on to become an educator, civil rights activist, and adviser to many national leaders. In 1934 President Franklin D.

Roosevelt appointed her to be executive director for the National Youth Administration, an agency she helped create during the Great Depression to provide jobs for unemployed youth. She was also a member of the National Board of Education and served on committees that promoted equal rights for women and minorities. In 1938 she opened the Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, which is still in operation today.

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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! Mary McLeod Bethune
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Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt Mary McLeod Bethune
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. 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
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. Mary McLeod Bethune
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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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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. Mary McLeod Bethune
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Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible. Mary McLeod Bethune
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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. Mary McLeod Bethune
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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. Mary McLeod Bethune
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough. Mary McLeod Bethune
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. Mary McLeod Bethune
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Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist. Mary McLeod Bethune
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Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living. Mary McLeod Bethune
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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. Mary McLeod Bethune
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From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could. Mary McLeod Bethune
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I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step. Mary McLeod Bethune
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We have a powerful potential in out 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
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Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. Mary McLeod Bethune
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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. Mary McLeod Bethune