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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.

Benjamin E. Mays

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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Dream Lying Stars
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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Men Something Unique
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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Believe People White
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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Determination Integrity Soul
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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Goals Dreams Lying Mind
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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Capture Disaster Ideals
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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People Tasks Wells
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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Born Men Strive
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
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.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS

Communication Intelligent School
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
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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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Dream Reaching Goals Stars

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