Courage of Conviction

People from all walks of life take courageous actions daily because they believe it’s the right thing to do. Courage is being yourself everyday in a world that tells you to be someone else. Dr. Maya Angelou frequently cited Courage as the most important and fundamental virtue, for without Courage, no other virtue can be lived.

This reminds of the “Ripple of Hope” speech by late Robert F Kennedy delivered at the University of Cape Town on June 6, 1966 during the worst years of Apartheid.

Each time you stand up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those to seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy

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