“I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 103 of 1106
“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”
“An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.”
“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”
“A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
“Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.”
“Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.”
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
“The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.”
“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.”
“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”
“Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.”
“No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!”
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
“We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.”