“I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 35 of 1106
“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”
“Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.”
“It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.”
“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
“If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!”
“Men fight wars. Women win them.”
“At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.”
“Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.”
“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.”
“I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.”
“Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.”
“Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.”
“The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
“I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.”
“We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.”
“The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”