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Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes

1875–1955 United States

Mary McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist who lived in the USA. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division

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The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

A Century of Progress of Negro Women (1933)

She exerts a unifying influence that is the miracle of the century.

A Century of Progress of Negro Women (1933)

To Frederick Douglass is credited the plea that, "the Negro be not judged by the heights to which he is risen, but by the depths from which he has climbed." Judged on that basis, the Negro woman embodies one of the modern miracles of the New World.

A Century of Progress of Negro Women (1933)

In time of war as in time of peace, the Negro woman has ever been ready to serve for her people's and the nation's good. During the recent World War she pleaded to go in the uniform of the Red Cross nurse and was denied the opportunity only on the basis of racial distinction.

A Century of Progress of Negro Women (1933)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary McLeod Bethune (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.