Quotes About Courage

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

I will not shy away from the prospect of peace because I believe our people, and any people, should have something to believe in.

I sit down in a chair, and I take off my two heavy little prosthetic legs and I crawl on my knees to the edge of the pool and I just jumped in, and I just instantly loved it.

At 18 months old, both of my lower legs were amputated so I could be fitted with prosthetic legs and learn to walk.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

I will protect democracy with my life.

The time during bombings was definitely difficult for everyone. My parents, they really protected me from it, and we came through together.

I do not want to see the whole Egyptian people feel protected by my presence. They really have to fight for their freedom whether I'm there or not.

No woman should live in fear, and every girl should feel protected.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

John Lewis was a giant in the face of adversity and injustice, putting his life on the line for our freedoms and committing his life to protecting the right to vote.

Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing.

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.

It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.

Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.

Protesting is a fundamental aspect of our democracy, and I will always encourage this course of action, but it can be intimidating.

I'm proud of my short hair. I don't think I will grow it long again.

You can't use the fact that I'm bisexual against me if that's something I'm proud of.

The real me is happy and proud to be who I am.