Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSIf what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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It isn’t more light we need, it isn’t more truth, and it isn’t more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.
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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
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For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.
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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.
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In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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