“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
in Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), p. 68
“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
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