It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSHonest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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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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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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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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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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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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 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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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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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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