The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends - who knew about my upbringing - I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.
We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.
I traveled to Cuba with the intention of speaking with boxers who had turned down enormous offers to leave. When explaining my project to people, again and again I was met with amusement and skepticism.
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
