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Mary McLeod Bethune

"What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them."

Source : Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.23, Indiana University Press

Mary McLeod Bethune

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“There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.”
“I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.”
“Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.”

Source : Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”
“Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.”
“I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.”
“Only the bold get to the top.”
“A lot of people think, "Oh I'm going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym." And I've definitely been one of those people and it just doesn't give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina.”
“I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different.”

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