Courage Quotes

Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.

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"To be responsible is to respond to what we encounter."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To be responsible is to acknowledge our complicity."
Mol, Annemarie
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"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
Davis, Angela
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"We need to challenge the status quo."
Davis, Angela
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"We must challenge systems of oppression."
Davis, Angela
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"We must speak truth to power without fear."
Davis, Angela
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"To live responsibly is to become aware of what our consumption involves"
Latour, Bruno
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"Writing is resistance."
Wittig, Monique
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"We are the subjects of our own stories."
Wittig, Monique
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"Imagination is resistance."
Wittig, Monique
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"Resistance begins with words."
Wittig, Monique
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"Women must speak the unspeakable."
Wittig, Monique
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"Oppression is a choice we can refuse."
Wittig, Monique
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"Authenticity in relationships requires the courage to resist the pull of constant optimization."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The question is not whether we can slow down, but whether we can afford not to."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But each time we speak, we build roads between each other."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Your silence will not protect you."
Rich, Adrienne
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"We cannot live safely without identifying ourselves according to what we have most feared."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The greatest act of courage is to be vulnerable and authentic."
hooks, bell
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"We must be willing to be fools for love and justice."
hooks, bell
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"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
Davis, Angela
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"Sometimes we have to do things that frighten us, especially when justice demands it."
Davis, Angela
D
"We cannot simply retreat into isolated communities and hope for change."
Davis, Angela
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"We must develop forms of resistance that are creative and joyful."
Davis, Angela
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"Resistance is not futile when it is grounded in vision and collective action."
Davis, Angela
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"We need courage to imagine and create different worlds."
Davis, Angela
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"To deviate from the norm is already to perform a kind of resistance."
Butler, Judith
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"Resistance must come from within the structures that constrain us."
Butler, Judith
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"The impossible is what we must nonetheless attempt."
Butler, Judith
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"Resistance is possible within the structures that constrain us, but it is never complete."
Butler, Judith