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Courageous Quotes — page 32 of 1106

George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.”

Samuel Adams Politician
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“Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.”

Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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“If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.”

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Woody Guthrie Singer-Songwriter
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“If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.”

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Emile Zola Novelist
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“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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“True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.”

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”

Langston Hughes Poet, Novelist
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“Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.”

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Golda Meir Politician
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“We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...”

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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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“It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.”

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Mencius Philosopher
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“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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“The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors”

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