51 Quotes by Mary McLeod Bethune

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

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.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

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.

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.