Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
Have enough courage to love.
Here then is my
Christian lack:
If I’m struck then
I’ll strike back.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
I mean to make myself more to deal with than the brute can handle.
Ignorance is not genetic. A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.
It is said that courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue with consistency.
Since a price will be exacted from us for everything we do or leave undone, we should pluck up the courage to win, to win back our finer and kinder and healthier selves.
There is no failure as long as you learn from your experience, continue to work, and continue to press on for success.
When my mother, Vivian Baxter, was confronted by challenges from fools or people she didn’t like, she said, “You better say Joe, ’cause you sho’ don’t know.” And that was a warning that needed to be heeded.
