List of Benjamin E. Mays Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The Tragedy Lies In Having No Goal To Reach

It Isn't A Calamity To Die With Dreams Unfulfilled, But It Is A Calamity Not To Dream.

It Is Not A Disaster To Be Unable To Capture Your Ideal, But It Is A Disaster To Have No Ideal To Capture.

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.

If What Is Communicated Is False, It Can Hardly Be Called Communication.

Man Is What His Dreams Are.

. . . The Circumference Of Life Cannot Be Rightly Drawn Until The Center Is Set.

Failure Isn't In Not Reaching Your Goal But In Having No Goal To Reach.

I Believe Everyone Is Born Into The World To Do Something Unique And Distinctive.