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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.

Benjamin E. Mays

It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS

Goal Life Reaching Stars
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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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
[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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Believe May Today Tomorrow
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Dream Reaching Goals Stars
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men
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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Born Men Strive
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
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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Men Something Unique
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
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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God Light Spiritual
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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Believe People White
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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Communication Intelligent School
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss

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