"I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards-all that your can do is to have me killed."

Courage, Integrity, Resistance, Justice

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"I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards-all that your can do is to have me killed."

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"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."

Robert Tew, American Writer

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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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