“In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 164 of 1106
“In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.”
“The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.”
“I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'”
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.”
“And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
“I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.”
“No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.”
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
“If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.”
“Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.”
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
“I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.”
“I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.”
“Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.”
“We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)”
“There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.”