Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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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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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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The 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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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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