“Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 219 of 1106
“For those people who fail to see the injustices that are occurring, in particular with the Muslim community, I think it's because you've sat in a seat of privilege for a long time, and you kind of choose to be myopic and not think of those people around you.”
“The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.”
“Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.”
“Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.”
“The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.”
“Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.”
“You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.”
“Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]”
“I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.”
“A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.”
“The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.”
“Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.”
“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”
“Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.”
“Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!”
“Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!”
“We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”
“You're always being led to your highest good, as long as you have the courage to listen.”
“Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.”