Courage Quotes

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is and not to be afraid of it."

"The street queens are not going to hide anymore."

"I've been called names, but I'm proud of who I am."

"I will not be silent, I will not be erased, I will not disappear."

"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to employ the same brutal methods which his oppressor uses."

"To me, nonviolence is not passive but active."

"We cannot expect justice unless we demand it."

"We built this movement from the ground up with nothing but determination."

"Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's loving anyway."

"True courage is admitting when you don't know something."

"I can no longer accept the things I can get used to."

"The struggle for justice should always be our primary concern."

"The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy."

"I have come to believe that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity."

"Fear is the enemy of progress."

"I'm a street queen first, activist second."

"Fighting for your right to exist isn't radical—it's survival."

"My existence is my resistance."

"Courage is showing up when it would be easier not to."

"Never let someone else's limitations become your reality."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"Silence equals death - our inaction is killing us."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"We must be willing to die for what we believe in."

"Courage multiplies when shared among a community."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."

"The question is not whether right can triumph, but whether we have the courage to try."