We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Interpretation
Courage is essential to overcome fear and obstacles in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of courage in combating fear. It suggests that just as dikes protect land from flooding, courage can help to contain and manage the overwhelming emotions and uncertainties that fear brings, enabling individuals to face challenges head-on.
In practice
In a motivational speech addressing students about facing their anxieties about exams.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?
I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
When thinking won't cure fear, action will.
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