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As death, therefore, is hanging over our head every hour, how can a man ever be unshaken in soul if he fears it?
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To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.
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Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.
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Shirking responsibility has never been a fault with which colored women might be truthfully charged.
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With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.
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Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful
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I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.
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Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.
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I try to scare myself at least once a day.
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Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”
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Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself
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Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
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We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.
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Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.verified·Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (dissenting)·November 10, 1919
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No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.
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Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.
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When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.
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who did not delay for any formal vote to empower him to do so, but followed him because he was born to command
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
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Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.