It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSHonest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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 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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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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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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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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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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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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[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 a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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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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