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4 | Page 5 “One
man of courage makes a majority.”
-- Andrew Jackson
Time is neutral and
does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
-- Jesse Jackson |  |
I long
to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble
tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
-- Helen
Keller |  |
"If people have moral
courage to stand up to the smallest injustice – their own and other’s – it’s kind
of like practice for when the big ones come around."
-- Colleen Kelly
And
when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of
us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities
to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured
by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second,
were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally,
were we truly men of dedication?—
-- John
F. Kennedy, 1961 |  |
 | It is from
the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or
strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples
build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy | To
dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
| If you lose hope,
somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to
be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still
have a dream.
-- Martin Luther King,
Jr |  |
"The
nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It
first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives
them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they
did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience
that reconciliation becomes a reality."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr. Perfect
courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking
on.
-- La Rochefoucauld
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We
can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need
the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life
that surrounds us.
~ Chief
Oren Lyons |  |
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