Courage Quotes

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

"I refuse to accept the idea that my circumstances define my destiny."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"Let us be the generation remembered as the one that stood up to tyranny and oppression."

"I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you."

"Nonconformity is the calling of greatness."

"I am convinced that the truest act of courage is to sacrifice ourselves for others."

"The need for courage is often greatest when nobody believes in you."

"Courage means rejecting the roles written for us by society."

"You cannot be nonviolent with a man who is determined to kill you."

"We must stop begging this country to do right by us and start demanding what is rightfully ours."

"The Negro must be made to understand that he is fighting for his life."

"We must stop asking for recognition and start taking what is ours."

"Repression and resistance are inextricably linked."

"Silence is complicity in the face of injustice."

"We must be willing to sacrifice individual comfort for collective liberation."

"Resistance requires seeing the world as it actually is, not as we wish it to be."

"Women's anger is justified and necessary."

"The strongest weapon is the refusal to participate."

"Our anger is information about injustice; listen to it."

"The system requires our silence; speaking is resistance."

"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We cannot claim to fight for equality while ignoring the specific struggles of the most marginalized."

"The power of intersectionality is that it refuses to let us hide from the full complexity of human experience."

"In order to be free, you have to learn to say no to the forces that dominate you."

"One must be willing to sacrifice personal comfort for collective freedom."

"Expect to make some mistakes when trying something new. That's not failure, that's progress."

"If you move through the world with an open heart, you will be hurt many times."