You have the ability, now apply yourself.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSMany 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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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 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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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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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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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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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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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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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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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