Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes

Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
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
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
Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Education is the great American adventure, the world’s most colossal democratic experiment.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Forgiving is not about forgetting, it’s letting go of the hurt
Mary McLeod Bethune
Enter to learn; depart to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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
World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds
Mary McLeod Bethune
Studying goes deeper than mere reading. 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