"The Negro student needs other skills--skills in how to remain poised and hopeful and jubilant in an environment that is not always friendly to his ambition and strivings. He needs the mind of the scientist, the wisdom of a philosopher, and the religious faith of the Negro slave."
p.148, BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS: SCHOOLMASTER OF THE MOVEMENT, A BIOGRAPHY, by Randal Maurice Jelks (2012)