“And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 130 of 1106
“The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?”
“Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.”
“I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.”
“Just because Congress passes a law and says it's all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it's all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973.”
“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”
“My helmet is off; I'm not afraid anymore.”
“Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.”
“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
“We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.”
“I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.”
“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
“I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?”
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.”
“When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were blue and people there whose eyes were black, people whose skin was white, people whose skin was black, people whose hair was blond, people whose hair was black, from the whitest white person to the blackest black person.”
“Imperialism is a paper tiger.”
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.”
“I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”