Benjamin E. Mays Quotes

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.

Benjamin E. Mays

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1895 - 1984

Topics

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We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Jesse Jackson

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I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

Tom Lenk

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Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

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I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.

Mike Posner

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To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

Michael Specter

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Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure.

Molly Ivins

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At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you.

Julia Hartz

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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Douglas Dunn

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Everyday people are not very good designers.

Donald Norman

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I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.

David Silva

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In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way.

Conor Oberst

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I had my foot in both worlds. I knew what I didn't want, and so I had to make a choice, just like N.W.A. made choices.

Corey Hawkins

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