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.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSFor 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 circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
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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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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.
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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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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It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.
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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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