A Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.
Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.
And the meek shall inherit the earth.
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll never increase market share.
The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.
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