"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."

-- Mary McLeod Bethune

#Girl Quotes #Heart Quotes #Boys Quotes

“And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.”
“What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.”
“I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.”
“What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?”
“We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”
“The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.”

Source : Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”
“Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.”
“No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.”

Source : Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

You may also like:

Dorothy Height
Educator
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Fannie Lou Hamer
Political leader
Frances Perkins
Former United States Secretary of Labor
Ida B. Wells
Journalist
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights activist
Mary Church Terrell
Shirley Chisholm
American Politician
Sojourner Truth
Activist