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

— Mary McLeod Bethune A Century of Progress of Negro Women (1933)

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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)

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.

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