Creative Quotations from Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Mary McLeod Bethune
(1875-1955) born on Jul 10

US "educator, writer". She was active in national black affairs and a special adviser to FDR on the problems of minority groups.

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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

"Next to God we are indebted
to women, first for life itself,
and then for making it
worth living."

"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist."

"From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could."

"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""My Last Will and Testament," in "Ebony," Aug 1955."
R:	"In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."
A:	"In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."
N:	"In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997."
K:	"A Centry of Progress of Negro Women," Chicago Women's Federation, June 30, 1935."