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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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Benjamin E. Mays
pastor, writer, religious leader
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1894 – 1984
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 Clendenon, among others. His rhetoric and intellectual pursuits focused on Black self-determination. Mays' commitment to social justice through nonviolence and civil resistance were cultivated from his youth through the lessons imbibed from his parents and eldest sister. The peak of his public influence coincided with his nearly three-decade tenure as the sixth president of Morehouse College, a historically black institution of higher learning, in Atlanta, Georgia.
All Quotes by Benjamin E. Mays
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Not failure, but low aim is sin.
— Benjamin E. Mays
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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 rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
— Benjamin E. Mays
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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 rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
— Benjamin E. Mays
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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 public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
— Benjamin E. Mays