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STARTING HER OWN SCHOOL DOCUMENTS GUIDE | BETHUNE HOME
TOPICS QUOTES
1. THE INTERVIEWER POSES FOUR TOPICS “Of course I know how Roosevelt turned with great feeling of ease and how you knew him well enough to shake your finger in his face and give him some friendly advice.”
2. CHOOSING TO TEACH IN FLORIDA “I went there because I was looking for a hard place to work.”
3. STARTING THE SCHOOL  “…when I got to Daytona I had only one dollar and a half left in cash.”
4. THE THREE DREAMS “You are planning to cross this river, but before you cross it you must take this book…and register the names of all those young people you see there in the distance.”
5. FAITH “One Saturday I did not have food.”
6. LUCY LANEY, MENTOR “I took the girls of the science class and my own class and went out and combed the alleys and streets and brought in hundreds of children until we had a Sunday School of almost a thousand young people…”
7. ALBERTUS BETHUNE “He had a beautiful tenor voice.”

 


 
 
 
 

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