"A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect"

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

#Failing Quotes #Protect Quotes

“The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.360
“Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.”
“The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.”
“I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.”
“The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”
“Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.”
“I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.”

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