If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSThe circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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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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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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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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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 lies in having no goal to reach
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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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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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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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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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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 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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