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Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes: For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
         

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


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



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