“What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. 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. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.” KnowsMenWantDoeRealCultureOpportunityJusticeChanceSimpleAnswersFourRightsEqualDiversityIdealsConstitutionSocial JusticeIndependenceBillsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceBill Of Rights Book:Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents
“Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.” MenDoneBlackWhiteWhite Man Author:Mary McLeod Bethune
“When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.” MenDoneWhiteTeachLearningWhite ManPushkin Author:Mary McLeod Bethune