Benjamin Elijah Mays: A Pictorial Life and Times

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Mercer University Press, 2006 - 202 pages
As a result of Benjamin Mays's many contributions, he was not only recognized as one of the great minds of the twentieth century, but also let an indelible impact on so many of those he touched. He received 51 honorary degrees, wrote articles for 100 magazines and contributed chapters in 15 books. At the Oxford, Conference on Church; Community, and State held at Oxford University in 1987 and at the state funeral of Pope John XXIII, Rome, in 1963. Dr. Mays represented the United States. He delivered addresses at more than 250 colleges, universities, and schools in the United States and was awarded the Distinguished Educator Award by the United States Offices of Education in 1978. His portrait was unveiled and placed in the South Carolina State House on 12 July 1980. In addition, Dr. Mays gave wisdom and counsel to many more through his sermons, speeches, and community involvement. To chronicle the amazing life and contributions of Mays Carrie Dumas spent several years in research collecting photos and interviewing many of those people whose lives were touched by him. Drawing from numerously archival sources; Duams presents here a photographic biography of one of America's most notable citizens. With more than one hundred images of the life and career of Dr. Mays, this work presents this unique and influential story in vivid detail. While many have read of the life of Dr. Mays, now we can view the images.

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LEGACY
141
EPILOGUE
161
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Page 149 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 161 - It isn'ta 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. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is sin.
Page 161 - 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 goal to reach.
Page 150 - Youth is not a time of life— it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.
Page 8 - One or my dreams came true at Bates. Through competitive experience, I had finally dismissed from my mind for all time the myth of the inferiority of all Negroes and the inherent superiority of all whites — articles of faith to so many in my previous environment.
Page 150 - Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim; Skin may differ but affection Dwells in black and white the same. And were I so tall as to reach the pole Or to grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind is the standard of the man.
Page 150 - Were I so tall as to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span, I must be measured by my soul, The mind's the standard of the man.
Page 34 - Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better."- If this advice did not create the "Morehouse Mystique,
Page 3 - ... religious periodicals. He has delivered addresses at more than seventy colleges in the United States. Notable was his "The Crisis in Race Relations: Which Way for the Church and Democracy?" at Vassar College on September 29, 1944. He was an American delegate to the World YMCA conference at Mysore, India, represented the United States at the Oxford Conference on Church, Community, and State, 1937, and at the Youth Conference at Amsterdam, Holland, in 1939.
Page 24 - BD degree to complete his work leading to the MA degree in two years. The first year of such study is devoted almost entirely to religious fields which are related to but lie outside of religious education. The second year is given to intensive study and research within the field of Religious Education itself.

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