15 ordspråk av Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune föddes den
10 juli 1875 och dog den 18 mei
1955 - and adviser to US president Franklin D. Roosevelt on the problems of minority groups.
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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
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I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.
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If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility
ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.
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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.
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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.
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour
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Next to God we are indebted/ to women, first for life itself,/ and then for making it/ worth living.
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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.
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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
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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.
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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.
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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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Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
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