“Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 116 of 1106
“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”
“What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.”
“World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.”
“I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.”
“This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.”
“Don't say maybe if you want to say no.”
“I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.”
“If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.”
“I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.”
“My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.”
“Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.”
“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.”
“To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”
“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
“Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.”
“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.”
“Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”
“I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.”
“Team spirit spurs me on. I've always found it easier to be strong for other people than for myself.”