#age

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved. ↗

— Melanie Rawn

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#courage

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm. ↗

— Jonathan Shay

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#pride #reality #war #courage

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

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#democracy #justice #prop- #courage