"For I am my mother's daughter, and..."

-- Mary McLeod Bethune

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #African American Quotes

“The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.”
“Don't create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.”
“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
“Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.”
“But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.”
“The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.”
“I just think this whole thing about not wearing anything twice, I just don't understand it. I think things should be worn. You should bond with your clothing. It should be yours.”
“All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.”

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