"Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment."

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Source : Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.108, Indiana University Press

Mary McLeod Bethune

#Education Quotes #Learning Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.”
“I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.”
“I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.”
“I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.”
“The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.”
“The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.”
“I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.”

Source : AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2011.
“Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.”

Source : Dawoud Bey, Walker Art Center (1995). “Dawoud Bey: portraits 1975-1995”

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