“The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 31 of 1106
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
“I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.”
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
“What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.”
“I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.”
“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.”
“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.”
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
“Don't get upset girl, that's how it goes. I don't love you hoes, I'm out the door.”
“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
“If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.”
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”
“When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.”
“We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”
“My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.”
“Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.”
“There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.”
“Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”