It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
Category Archive: Benjamin E. Mays
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.
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.
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.