mary mc leod bethune

“ While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. ”

“ The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give. ”

“ I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. ”

“ Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world. ”

“ You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. ”

“ I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. ”

“ For I am my mothers daughter. ”

“ We live in a world which respects power above all things. ”