Quote by Mary McLeod Bethune: “Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”

Bethune urges us to believe in and nurture the potential within every individual. She suggests that beneath rough exteriors, many people possess extraordinary untapped talents and value, waiting to be discovered and polished.

Bethune wrote her "Last Will and Testament" in 1955, reflecting on her life's work for education and racial uplift during the nascent Civil Rights Movement. It served as a guiding philosophy for future generations in their struggle for equality and human potential.

American educator and civil rights leader who founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904, which eventually became Bethune-Cookman University. She served as an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and was one of the most influential Black women in American public life of the twentieth century.