"We, today, stand on the shoulders of our……" — Benjamin E. Mays
"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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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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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.…
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to…
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to…
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