"A system cannot fail those it was never…" — W. E. B. Du Bois
"A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect"
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113 Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois has 113 quotes on this site.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness…
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words…
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not…
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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More Cannot Fail Quotes
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind:…
— Douglas MacArthur
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You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too…
— Cyril Connolly
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The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
— Tom Clancy
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail…
— H. Bentley Glass
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If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens -…
— Eric Ries
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