“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not r...” — Benjamin E. Mays Quote

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.

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.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to breathe and communities that are safe to live in. Carbon pollution limits are about defending families who have borne the heaviest burden of the main pollutant that is driving climate change.