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" School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals. "

Donna Brazile

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" Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. "

" All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. "

" People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage. "

" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "

" My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream. "

" People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. "

" Courage is found in unlikely places. "

" Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. "

" Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life. "

" There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger. "

" After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another. "

" Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.' "

" Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right. "

" Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. "

" We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. "

" Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. "

" Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free. "

" I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard. "

" All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage. "

" I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent. "

" Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. "

Christian Nestell Bovee

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" Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man. "

" In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal. "

" I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that. "

Norman Lloyd

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" As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton. "

" Genius is talent set on fire by courage. "

" And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. "

" I had to find the courage to turn my life around. "

" One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. "