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.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSHonest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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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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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 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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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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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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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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