Article May 5, 1986 Issue

"I leave you love

Mary McLeod Bethune

"I leave you love. Love builds. It is positive and helpful. It is more beneficial than hate. Injuries quickly forgotten quickly pass away. Personally and racially, our enemies must be forgiven. Our aim must be to create a world of fellowship and justice where no man's skin, color or religion, is held against him. 'Love thy neighbor' is a precept which could transform the world if it were universally practiced. It connotes brotherhood and, to me, brotherhood of man is the noblest concept in all human relations. Loving your neighbor means being interracial, interreligious and international."

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune
"My Last Will And Testament"
Reprinted in Ebony, November 1985
© 1985 Johnson Publishing Co., Inc.