“But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 194 of 1106
“I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.”
“There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.”
“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”
“In comradeship is danger countered best.”
“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.”
“Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.”
“A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.”
“Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!”
“Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.”
“Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.”
“I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.”
“Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.”
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”
“To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.”
“Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.”
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
“Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.”
“Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”
“Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.”