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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.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS

Life Lows Tragedy
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
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
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
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
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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Battle Liberty Today
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men
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 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
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
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 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
[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
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
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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