“We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 202 of 1106
“Effort + the courage to show up = enough.”
“Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.”
“Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.”
“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.”
“No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.”
“Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.”
“People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.”
“To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.”
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.”
“I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.”
“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”
“What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?”
“There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.”
“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.”
“It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.”
“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.”
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
“This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.”