CURATED COLLECTION

Facing Fear With Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear — it is the decision that something else matters more.

18 quotes found

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I am a true daughter of Acoliland; I am not a half‑caste.

—Okot p'BitekPoet & Anthropologist

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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To change is to be brave. To stay the same is to be a coward.

—Buchi EmechetaNovelist

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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There was no road before; it is made by those who walk it.

—Lu XunWriter, Essayist & Critic

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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One must not forget the courage to resist and rebel.

—Ding LingFeminist & Writer

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Sometimes you gotta jump off a cliff and figure out how to fly on the way down.

—Tiffany HaddishScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Break all chains. Burn all prisons. Rise, O oppressed! Your time has come.

—Kazi Nazrul IslamPoet, Musician & Revolutionary

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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We must adapt our strategies, not abandon our goal of freedom.

—Njinga MbandeQueen

Renaissance ERA • Southern Africa

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Don't go with the flow. Be the flow. Be yourself, bravely.

—Shams-i-TabriziMystic & Theologian

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

—Sheryl SandbergBusiness Executive, Author

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

—Angela DavisActivist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • North America

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With my body, I shall bear witness to the dawn of a new China.

—Qiu JinFeminist, Revolutionary & Poet

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Women have the power to change things.

—Flora NwapaNovelist

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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Love is a revolution, both tender and fierce, changing everything it touches.

—Gioconda BelliPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We have no right to expect any change in the conditions of women unless we make the change ourselves.

—Elizabeth BlackwellPhysician

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

—Thomas SankaraRevolutionary & President

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.

—Susan B. AnthonyReformer

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain.

—Beyoncé Knowles-CarterSinger, Songwriter, Actress

Digital Age ERA • North America

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It is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

—Frederick DouglassAbolitionist, Orator, Writer

Industrial Age ERA • North America