"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Courage, Time, Right

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"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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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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"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."

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"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

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"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."

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"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps 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."

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"I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love."

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"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."

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