The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
BENJAMIN E. MAYSA child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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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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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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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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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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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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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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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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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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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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