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Benjamin E. Mays

(1894–1984) Pastor

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Benjamin E. Mays was a pastor.

Quick Facts About Benjamin E. Mays

Born: August 1, 1894
Died: March 28, 1984
Profession: Pastor

About Benjamin E. Mays

[Wikidata] American educator, activist, minister (1894–1984)... | [Wikipedia] Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many influential activists, including Martin Luther King Jr, Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson, and Donn C

Quotes by Benjamin E. Mays

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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Behinds

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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't…

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Adversity

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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but…

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Ability

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Man is what his dreams are.

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Dream

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Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

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Failure

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Not failure, but low aim is sin.

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Aim

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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

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Communication

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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…

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Believe

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Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by…

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Feels

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“It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life…

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Goals

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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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Believe

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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not…

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Capacity

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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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Disgrace

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The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately…

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Accidents

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. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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Life

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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

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Achieved success

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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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Built

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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…

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Born

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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…

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Goal

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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…

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Capture

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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…

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Ancestor

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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

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Believe

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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…

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Believe

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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…

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Broken

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You have the ability, now apply yourself.

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Ability

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