"We must build dikes of courage to..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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“True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.”
“Compromise does not mean cowardice.”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.”
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“Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.”
“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.”
“Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.”