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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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77
To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.
78
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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Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.
81
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful
82
Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”
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I try to scare myself at least once a day.
84
Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.
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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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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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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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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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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emersonmisattributed·Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers, by Muriel Strode, in The Open Court, Volume XVII, Number 567·August 1903
Wrongly attributed
Universally attributed to Emerson, and it is in none of his essays, journals or letters. It is Muriel Strode, an American writer almost nobody has heard of, in the August 1903 issue of The Open Court. The rewriting is the interesting part: Strode wrote a vow in the first person about herself, and the version that circulates has been turned into an instruction issued to somebody else. Do not go where the path may lead is not what she said. I will not follow is.