#courage
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Speech at Harvard University (1943)”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen”
“The price of greatness is responsibility”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Speech to the House of Commons (August 20, 1940)”
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Speech to the House of Commons (June 4, 1940)”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
“Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks,”
“From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”
“God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”
“Standing Up for Freedom,”
“I'd see the bus pass every day... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. Quoted in The Story Behind the Bus .  Rosa Parks Bus . The Henry Ford. Retrieved on 2008”
“Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution,”
“Thank you very much. I honor my late husband Raymond Parks, other Freedom Fighters, men of goodwill who could not be here. I'm also honored by young men who respect me and have invited me as an elder. Raymond, or Parks as I called him, was an activist in the Scottsboro Boys case, voter registration, and a role model for youth. As a self”
“Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary”
“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty”
“You may do that. (on being threatened with arrest for failing to move from her seat) “You’re Under Arrest”: Rosa Parks’ Disobedience Against Racism , 2022”
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“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. As quoted in Jet magazine Vol. 58, No. 1”
“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion'. On training, as quoted by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre in "Ali: Born Again!," Newsweek”
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. Interview in Playboy magazine”
“Round 1: I am the Greatest”
“'The white man is the devil'”
“Muhammad Ali In His Own Words: Six of His Best Quotes to Live By ,”
“Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it. Comment after the match with Jimmy Ellis was stopped by the referee in the twelfth round”
“I think Terrell will catch hell at the sound of the bell. He's going around saying that he's a championship”
“Muhammad Ali was also great for civil rights”
“There are certain artists who belong to all the people, everywhere, all the time. The list of singers, musicians, and poets must include David the harpist from the Old Testament, Aesop the Storyteller, Omar Khayyam the Tent Maker, Shakespeare the Bard of Avon, Louis Armstrong the genius of New Orleans, Om Kalsoum the soul of Egypt, Frank Sinatra , Mahalia Jackson , Dizzy Gillespie , Ray Charles ... Celia Cruz ...All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter”
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within”
“I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life . As quoted in Goal Mapping : How to Turn Your Dreams into Realities (2006) by Brian Mayne, p. 84”
“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. As quoted in The Truth in Words (2005) by Neal Zero”
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry , but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh , eat , worry , and die , it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends . Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) p. 12.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224”
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind , true, merciful , generous , or honest . As quoted in USA Today”
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense . No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), chapter 5.”
“… There is an African saying which is:”
“We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*”
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“Alea iacta est.”
“The road to success is not a straight line; it is full of obstacles.”
“If you don't lose your temper, you have a chance to win.”
“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
“The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.”
“I always loved running; it was something you could do by yourself.”
“Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it.”
“One chance is all you need.”
“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself are the most important.”
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, and discipline.”
“Harriet Tubman never said this”
“but offers no citation. No source from earlier than 1993 is known. Quoted in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah, p. 299. Tubman specialists like Jean H. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson deem this one completely spurious. See”
“The phrase " Liberty or Death " is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.”
“Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”
“I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty”
“Modernized rendition: I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”
“I looked at my hands , to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees , and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven . On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states”
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say”
“I can't die but once. As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson”
“I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'. As quoted in Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1971), by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, pp. 14”
“The Genesis of the New Deal, 1928”
“I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all American history”
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made. Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon”
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois”
“The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Franklin D. Roosevelt , radio address (March 2, 1930); reported in Public Papers of Governor Roosevelt (1930), p. 710.”
“During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby, and forget his troubles. during the Great Depression regarding Shirley Temple cited 16 December 2024 here on BBC article by Aine Quinn”
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation , which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. Speech at the People's Forum in Troy, New York”
“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm . Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153”
“F.D.R. : His Personal Letters, Early Years (2005), edited by Elliott Roosevelt , p. 6]”
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“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. As quoted in Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972) by Joseph P. Lash”
“In Defense of Curiosity”
“good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.' from”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix”
“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times”
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156”
“It isn't enough to talk about peace . One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Voice of America broadcast”
“Understanding is a two”
“damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
“Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it! In a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933”