"Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the……" — Benjamin E. Mays
"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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Benjamin E. Mays
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27 Quotes by Benjamin E. Mays
Benjamin E. Mays has 27 quotes on this site.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too…
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In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death…
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He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man…
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We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch…
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It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ,…
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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…
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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…
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Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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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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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting…
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use…
— Eric Alterman
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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the…
— Alan Greenspan
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press…
— John F. Kennedy
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
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If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have…
— Francis Crick
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not…
— Robert K. Merton
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