Quotes about Courage

He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance — that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.

You've been getting it. Big fat doses of the truth. it's ugly, isn't it? Sometimes. And you still want it? Always... I'm not afraid. Besides, God is my shield. You don't have to be.

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

I pray for the courage To walk naked At any age To wear red and purple, To be unladylike, Inappropriate, Scandalous and incorrect To the very end.

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

Love is meant to be an adventure!!

A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.