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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

Benjamin E. Mays

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
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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Believe Children Inspirational
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men
[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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Believe May Today Tomorrow
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
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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Goal Life Reaching Stars
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
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
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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Men Race Running
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
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
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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Communication Intelligent School
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
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

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