Benjamin E. Mays
1894 - 1984
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Biography
Benjamin E. Mays was a prominent African American educator, minister, and civil rights activist. He served as the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 to 1967, where he played a key role in shaping the academic and social environment of the institution. Mays was a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a significant influence on the civil rights movement, advocating for equality and justice. He was known for his powerful oratory skills and his commitment to education as a means of social progress and empowerment.
Famous Quotes (5)
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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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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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The Negro must be willing to wash his face in the blood of the lamb, shed on the cross of Calvary, that he may be cleansed from his moral impurities and be made whiter than snow.