Benjamin E. Mays Believe Quotations

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

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.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.