If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the … - Mary McLeod Bethune

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I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was Egypt. I've written a few books on the subject. There's no doubt that the best way to resolve Israel's problems is to negotiate peace between Israel and its immediate neighbors, particularly the Palestinians. And that's something that's not going to be achieved, in my opinion, without the strong involvement of the American president.

Mary McLeod Bethune

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

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For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

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When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

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

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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

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I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

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