51 Quotes by Mary McLeod Bethune
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Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
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Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
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Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.
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You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.
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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.
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World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds
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