Mary Mcleod Bethune Quotes:

* If our people are to fight their way up out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of pride.

* I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

* I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.
For I am my mother's daughter, and 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.

* The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

Mary McLoed Bethune

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