Benjamin E. Mays
Benjamin E. Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mayswas an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights, and the progression of political rights of African Americans in America. He was active working with world leaders, such as John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and John D. Rockefeller, in improving the social standing of minorities in politics, education, and business...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth1 August 1895
CountryUnited States of America
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
Man is what his dreams are.
. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
You have the ability, now apply yourself.