What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy nonviolence and racial justice.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work courage and personal responsibility.

Throughout the years many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down I believe in the human spirit although sometimes that belief is shaken.

With faith and courage generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture traditions and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

When we read stories of heroes we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them we grow in some small way.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Keep courage. Whatever you do do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

These rules may seem simple enough but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

To me there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Courage: Great Russian word fit for the songs of our children's children pure on their tongues and free.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Physical courage is a great test.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.