When courage is talked about, it is usually the blustery type that wants to fight everyone in bar rooms. The quiet, everyday courage many people fight in the face of grinding adversity is rarely celebrated. That kind of courage often is overlooked in favor of "masculine" and "glamorous" courage, such as movies and bar room talk. We see the fruits of this supposed courage today in ghettos with gun violence at a tragic level with young people dead, and families forever torn apart by dead loved ones.
People fighting disabilities in wheelchairs and blindness with dignity, people who can smile in the throes of black depression, people who fight in face of popular opinion at the expense of relationships, business, and security, people who punch in to work everyday for two jobs, people who stick together to raise families despite poverty and ambition, show courage.
People such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King were not explosive tempered people quick to fight physically, but faced down violence and threats against overwhelming odds in make positive change without resorting to their enemies' level, but rather love. We need more of that courage to take root today.
People fighting disabilities in wheelchairs and blindness with dignity, people who can smile in the throes of black depression, people who fight in face of popular opinion at the expense of relationships, business, and security, people who punch in to work everyday for two jobs, people who stick together to raise families despite poverty and ambition, show courage.
People such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King were not explosive tempered people quick to fight physically, but faced down violence and threats against overwhelming odds in make positive change without resorting to their enemies' level, but rather love. We need more of that courage to take root today.
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