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.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSHonest 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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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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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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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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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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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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[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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He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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