“I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 48 of 1106
“It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.”
“One man's transparency is another's humiliation.”
“I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.”
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
“I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery”
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.”
“Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.”
“Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.”
“If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.”
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
“That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.”
“If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.”