https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:29:04 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/mays-benjamin/59489/ https://wist.info/mays-benjamin/59489/#respond Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:56:16 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=59489 I would rather go to hell by choice than to stumble into heaven by following the crowd.

Benjamin Mays (1894–1984) American minister, educator, civil rights leader
(Attributed)

Recalled about him by various secondary sources as a line he used while preaching to students at Morehouse College in the 1940s. (1, 2, 3, 4). Several sources point to the article "A Black Thorn in the White Conscience," Atlanta Journal and Constitution, page M-9 (18 Jan 1970). ]]> https://wist.info/mays-benjamin/59489/feed/ 0 59489