Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear."
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Coward
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Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt."
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"Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons."
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"Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still."
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"This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
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"[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight."
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"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."
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"I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die."
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"When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight."
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"It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'"
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"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought"
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"I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense."
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"Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!"
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"The cowards never start and the weak die along the way."
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"Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar."
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"You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others."
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"The coward only threatens when he is safe."
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"Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense."
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"It was the cowards who died many times before their death."
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"Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin."
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"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
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"Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency."
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