Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances."
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Submissive
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Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way"
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator."
Emma Watson
Actress, Activist
"If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled."
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"Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge."
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"Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances."
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"Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally."
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"Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him."
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