We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Interpretation
Courage is essential to overcome fear and obstacles in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of courage in combating fear. It suggests that just as dikes protect land from flooding, courage can help to contain and manage the overwhelming emotions and uncertainties that fear brings, enabling individuals to face challenges head-on.
In practice
In a motivational speech addressing students about facing their anxieties about exams.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
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