"All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Courage, Silence, Security, Fear

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"All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows."

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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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