The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
I know Kamala will be a capable, courageous leader for all Americans.
Heroes are never perfect, but they’re brave, they’re authentic, they’re courageous, determined, discreet, and they’ve got grit.
I think it’s such a courageous thing to look around and say, ‘If I don’t get to be one of the lucky ones who are born with a family, how do I put that in my life?’
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains – daisy chains – of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between ‘his,’ ‘her’ or ‘their’ wish and yours.
I don’t like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
I think ‘Ratcatcher’ broke even as a film, but it got a good critical response. I think that people knew that it wasn’t going to be a conventional piece of work, but they were still willing to invest in it. With this material you have to be quite courageous.
I think my mum is courageous.
As a person life has always been a bit of a challenge for me and I have spent so much of my early years in fear and I think that making music makes me want to be more courageous.
Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.
We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny.
As an announcer, I have nothing but respect for the fighters, and I want to make sure I do my job to let the people know who these courageous warriors are, because they are putting their lives on the line for our entertainment, and there’s something to be said about that.
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way… to get in the way.
You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if – if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we’ve coming in, I’ll veto it. I mean, I’m going to try to work with you the best I can, but I’m going to veto it.
I think a pixie cut is so cute. I just think that everyone that has one is the most courageous person. It’s so daring to do that! I get geeked out by people when they do that. They’re awesome. Would I do it? Maybe.
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion – these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it’s good for me.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
I always believe that when you’re not courageous, you become cunning.
My grandfather was a very courageous man, and I consider myself very lucky because I have three powerful role models that will obviously influence my career choices when I am older.
Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
King Arthur was one of my heroes because he was such a marvelous, heroic, courageous, and magnificent person that I had to admire him even though I knew perfectly well that I could never be in any way like that.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
It’s time for conservatives to demand courageous leadership that puts Arkansas families, jobs, and our constitutional liberties first.
When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that’s nice.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Insulting people doesn’t make you brave, bold, cool or courageous.
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, ‘If you couldn’t care less what anyone says about you, then it’s not courage.’
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
On the surface, different generations may look at youth in a different way, but inside it is the same. When they love, they are courageous, and willing to do anything, including stupid things. When they get heartbroken, they cry as hard as they can.
I meet my fears with excitement. They are an excuse to be courageous.
Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin’s bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
We’ve seen how the power of supporting women in media can deeply affect culture and inspire a new generation of courageous trailblazers and for the past 70 years, The Alliance for Women in Media has been doing just that.
You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that’s unpopular.
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It’s not what I do.
As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
You have to commend the players who’ve stepped up and used their voice, who’ve been courageous, and when it came to Colin Kaepernick, had to sacrifice tremendously to get their point across.
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
Courage? Well, that’s a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?
People say to me all the time, ‘You have no fear.’ I tell them, ‘No, that’s not true. I’m scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.’
I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it’s the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that’s where you feel danger.
I think people are frightened by different things, so I don’t see myself as particularly courageous.
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don’t like.
It’s a courageous thing to do something that doesn’t have rules or limits.
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.
I don’t have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.
We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.
It is only when you are afraid that you can be courageous. So if you don’t overcome any fear, how can you find out who you really are?
