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«The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.»
«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.»
Author: Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator) | About: Potential, Youth | Keywords: In Out, practices
«Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.»
«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.»
Author: Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator) | About: Religion, Youth | Keywords: The Vision
«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.»
Author: Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator) | About: Chance | Keywords: Africa, beat in, drums, Negro
«If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibilityourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.»
«Knowledge is the prime need of the hour»
Author: Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator) | About: Knowledge | Keywords: prime
«I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.»
«From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.»
«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.»
Author: Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator) | About: Courage, Tenacity | Keywords: firmly, lash, lashed, lashes

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