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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Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.Mary McLeod Bethune
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.
Mary McLeod Bethune
If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of pride.
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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
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