“We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 236 of 1106
“Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.”
“The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.”
“A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.”
“The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.”
“Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.”
“We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance”
“A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.”
“If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.”
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”
“The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.”
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
“My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.”
“Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.”
“Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.”
“I'm a warrior for the middle class.”
“If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.”
“As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.”
“I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport -- be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.”
“The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.”