Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSIf what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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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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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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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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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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[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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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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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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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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