It is within this overarching concern for humanity and the world that Nana Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, great and honored educator, institution-builder and activist, teaches us that to sustain the world, “We must re-make the world. The task is nothing less than that.” And she reminds us in this earnest striving and struggle that “the task that is before us as human beings cannot be accomplished singly,” that is to say by one race, gender, class, religion or nation. On the contrary, she says, “we must live together; we must work together. We must be willing to use the great measuring rod of justice and fellowship to (humankind) for the sake of (humankind) everywhere” and thus, for the world.
