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If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

— Jim Hightower

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There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (1998)

The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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