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Mary McLeod Bethune: “What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?”

( 1939 ) Commentary by Michael J. O’Neal, Ph.D.

Essential Quotes

“Under God’s guidance in this great democracy, we are rising out of the darkness of slavery into the light of freedom.”

“The democratic doors of equal opportunity have not been opened wide to Negroes.”

“We have always been loyal when the ideals of American democracy have been attacked.”

“Perhaps the greatest battle is before us, the fight for a new America: fearless, free, united, morally re-armed, in which 12 million Negroes, shoulder to shoulder with their fellow Americans, will strive that this nation under God will have a new birth of freedom.”

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