“Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.”
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
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Famous Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes
“Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.”
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”
“The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.”
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
“For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.”
“Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt”
“From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.”
“Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.”
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
“Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.”
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
“The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.”
“Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.”
“I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.”
“Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.”
Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
“Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.”