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Benjamin E. Mays has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 little. Not…
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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…
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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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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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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, more courage,…
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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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It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…
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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight…
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There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.
— James Meredith
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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.
— Malcolm X
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The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .…
— Alexander Hamilton
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What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took…
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