Courage Quotes

"Remember this in the darkest moments, when the work doesn’t seem worth it, and change seems just out of reach: out of our willingness to push through comes a tremendous power."

- Stacey Abrams

"I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there’s no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’"

- Claudette Colvin

"When day comes we step out of the shade / Aflame and unafraid / The new dawn blooms as we free it / For there is always light / If only we're brave enough to see it / If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"We are celebrating African American liberty, but a liberty that has typically come delayed, a liberty that was not promised, but something that we continuously have to fight for...including today."

- Amanda Gorman

"Today on Juneteenth: the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom."

- Angela Davis

"Emancipation wasn’t a gift bestowed on the slaves; it was something they took for themselves, the culmination of their long struggle for freedom."

- Jamelle Bouie

"Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom."

- Angela Davis

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

- Rosa Parks

"We are going to get out here, I am going to get out here and get something done. We have to wake up America. We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 years."

- Gwen Carr

"You must never, ever give out. We must keep the faith because we are one people. We are brothers and sisters. We all live in the same house: The American house."

- John Lewis

"What historical narrative are we willing to weave in order to remind people not only that we were here enduring the trials but that we stared the fang toothed wolves of injustice in the face and said ‘no more.’"

- Travon Free

"If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win."

- Fred Hampton

"We are going to get out here, I am going to get out here and get something done. We have to wake up, America. We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 years."

- Gwen Carr

"I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression."

- Malcolm X

"Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave."

- Harriet Tubman

"Women who fought and sacrificed so much for equality and liberty and justice for all, including the Black women who are often, too often overlooked, but so often prove they are the backbone of our democracy."

- Kamala Harris

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would be also free."

- Rosa Parks

"Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again."

- Malcolm X

"You must never, ever give out. We must keep the faith because we are one people. We are brothers and sisters. We all live in the same house: the American house."

- John Lewis

"I came to slay."

- Beyoncé

"You know you that b*tch when you cause all this conversation."

- Beyoncé

"I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up."

- Malala Yousafzai

"For me, it’s not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It’s interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It’s about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it."

- Natalie Dormer

"Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life’s challenges for a lifetime."

- Chris Matakas

"Choosing yourself is a revolutionary act of integrity."

- Jennifer Arnise

"Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted."

- Philip Randolph

"Power concedes nothing without a demand, It never did and it never will."

- Frederick Douglass

"When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"To my daughter, be bold, be brave, be you!"

"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it."