“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 71 of 1106
“I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.”
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”
“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”
“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”
“What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.”
“Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.”
“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”
“People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.”
“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”
“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?”
“Once a Raider, always a Raider.”
“Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.”
“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”
“Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get. They don't drop those drugs off in Beverly Hills. They drop them off in the ghetto. Then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. Well, we didn't bring them here. We just sell them. I was selling, like I sold newspapers.”
“If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people. A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people, will never perish. I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.”
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
“Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”